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- From: vixie@pa.dec.com (Paul A Vixie)
- Newsgroups: alt.config
- Subject: Re: alt reorg
- Date: 24 Jan 93 23:13:04
- Organization: DEC Network Software Lab
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- In-reply-to: graaff@dutiws.twi.tudelft.nl's message of Sun, 24 Jan 1993 17:27:25 GMT
-
- [Hans de Graaff]
- > Doesn't that defy the whole purpose of alt, it being an uncontrolled
- > hierarchy? If you want a controlled hierarchy you should either look
- > for the big seven, or create a new hierarchy like alt-controlled,
- > which is a contradiction in terms.
- >
- > I guess that alt will always be the mess that it is. Cope and manage
- > your active file, or drop alt alltogether.
-
- What alt is is "bread and circuses". I have no wish to soil the altness
- by exercising some kind of editorial control; all I want to do is share
- some of the work of deleting groups like alt.ensign.wesley.die.die.die.
- (I hate wasting inodes even more than I hated wesley crusher, believe it
- or not.)
-
- The important part of alt is not that it isn't controlled; it's that there
- is no authority for controlling it. I wouldn't mind a little control, but
- I agree that if someone wants authority-driver hierarchy they can go to
- the Big Seven.
-
- The kind of control I'm trying to establish will not affect anyone who does
- not subscribe to it. From your description of "Becker", I'm expecting him(?)
- to subscribe to the alt.cabal just for the purpose of creating anti-rmgroup
- control messages. In other words, "Becker" _does_ want authority, it's just
- that he(?) want to use it to _prevent_ control rather than to _establish_ it.
- It's the tyranny of terrorism rather than the tyranny of bureaucracy. But it's
- still tyranny, and it's a good example of how to become that which you used
- to fight against.
- --
- Paul Vixie, DEC Network Systems Lab
- Palo Alto, California, USA "Don't be a rebel, or a conformist;
- <vixie@pa.dec.com> decwrl!vixie they're the same thing, anyway. Find
- <paul@vix.com> vixie!paul your own path, and stay on it." -me
-