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From: vixie@vix.com (Paul Vixie)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps,comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Comments from the Authors of 386bsd on the C.O.I.
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Date: 8 Dec 1993 21:01:59 -0800
Organization: Vixie Enterprises
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Speaking as one of the folks who pushed to install Eliot Lear as King of the
ba.* newsgroup hierarchy a few years back, I'd like to repeat here and now
what I said back then and there:

	"Sometimes it is better to have someone in charge of something
	even if that person disagrees with me more than 50% of the time
	then to have noone at all in charge of something."

Newsgroup moderators are like that.  Everyone disagrees about something.  But
it's still better to have a single hand on the tiller, at least for this kind
of tiller.

As it happens, I expect to agree with Chris much more than 50% of the time,
but that's just me.  Let's figure 50% as the average among all who observe
what he does as the moderator, and then admit, sheepishly, that that's as
good as it gets in a ``mob psychology rules'' situation like Usenet.
-- 
Paul Vixie
Redwood City, CA
<paul@vix.com>
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