In article ,
 Cherry Chapstick <azure@invalid.really.really> writes:
>On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:25:24 +0000, "Clive D. W. Feather"
> wrote:
>
>>>Yes, I agree with that.  So, we are agreed that there is some level of
>>>control in place via the committees with the users alerting the
>>>committees to the need for this group or for that group.
>>
>>No, the users alert the *electorate*.
>>
>>All the Committee does is ensure the procedures are followed and that
>>the proposal fits into the naming scheme.
>
>Who is it who has mandated that this is all that the committee does?
>Where is that rule written?

Presumably it's rather a lack of rules entitling them to do anything
more.
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            like a person breaking into giggles or hiccups, and then resumed
            its sober climb, until it had another fit of steps."
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