Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Mike Easter Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Potential Charter (was comp.misc list of ...) Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 13:13:50 -0800 Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <8c3a4756-8def-4696-9506-37ab446af87c@googlegroups.com> <4651#10807@usenet.squte.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net N41TKIqqEPlgBSi/F0v5gg+0uVjLQZCCCx7482pJaSlUA9DXxF Cancel-Lock: sha1:1ZRmsK0Kf4G+iyaeX54P5M35Qvs= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.3.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:811 RS Wood wrote: > Mike Easter wrote: >> As you likely know, big 8 groups are much more managed than alt. >> and other hierarchies. > On the grounds that we've sort of taken over a vacant lot with > nothing but broken bottles and old tires rotting in the weeds, I > suspect our case is a bit different. Actually, people have been taking over such vacant lot/groups 'forever' because 'that's a better thing to do' than such as the formalized process of creating a new group (and/with a new charter etc). Sometimes the usenet admin oriented folks get a little full of themselves and their wish for highly organized anarchy. :-) In reality, a group is whatever the occupants who first find/arrive, then lurk, and ultimately contribute and make of it, for better or worse, not anything usenet admin might think. -- Mike Easter