In uk.net.news.management on Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:58:05 +0000, Geoff
Berrow  wrote:

> On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:47:18 +0000, Owen Dunn
>  wrote:
>
>>Geoff Berrow  writes:
>>
>>> The time wasted on arguing the urcm proposal and these committee
>>> elections would have been better spent trying to work out some way
>>> we can keep Usenet as a viable entity.  There is nothing like it on
>>> the Internet.
>>
>>I think that's exactly what people _are_ doing by arguing through
>>things in this group: more groups, fewer groups, moderation,
>>community, the role of the committee, the scope of uk.* vs Big8, etc.
>>This isn't wasting time.
>
> That won't do it.  The problem is deeper than that.
>
> IMV, without the involvement of a major player, Usenet will shrink
> back to its core base of technical groups.

Would that be such a very bad thing?




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