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- From: tjw@vms.cis.pitt.edu (TJ Wood)
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- Subject: Re: Expansion of alt.fan.rush-limbaugh proposed
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- Date: 19 Nov 92 03:25:23 GMT
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- In article <Bxw0uC.Dxn@unix.amherst.edu>, twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce) writes:
-
- > It's quite clear that the only
- > reason people like Becker have any kind of "power" around here is
- > because we, as system managers, have quietly given it to him by
- > default.
-
- You've actually raised an interesting concept with this discussion. The
- concept of what the "USENET" really is. Each site can manipulate "USENET"
- into it's own image, more or less. For example, if somebody makes a group
- called "alt.monkeyboys", I can choose to carry the group; to not carry the
- group; or to carry the group but alias it to something else. So nobody
- really has any "power" over the USENET, with the exception of the influence
- over one's downstream sites. But given the reality of several Internet feed
- sites that many sites have, even that "power" has been diluted.
-
- So when I see newgroups/rmgroups for alt.graphics week after week, for example,
- I have to ask myself why anyone bothers. But, then again, if they didn't
- have the illusion of this exercise, they might be out participating in gangs,
- selling drugs and getting into all sorts of REAL trouble. ;-)
-
- Terry
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