Re: PROPOSAL: Vote on FAQ Revision

From: kmgraphiks@aol.com (KMGraphiks)

Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 00:00:00 +0000

>Ah, O.K. so it was a pressing enough issue to have a flame war and snipe
on
>and on at Greg about but not actually pressing enough to discuss sensibly
>and form a new policy. Fine. I'm happy with it as it is, I was merely
>allowing the, until now, vocal factions to make the change they all
thought
>was so important.

The flaming was only by a few who overreacted to Greg's highhandedness and
threat to flood the ng with ads from his list. The most important thing
that has come out of the discussion is that Greg's FAQ is powerless.

>>One has to wonder however what the point to all this is when the FAQ
maintainer
>>has implied that he will only change the FAQ if the group is chartered?

>But this is the "correct" way to go about chartering it and making the
Evil
>Greg ;-) bow to pressure.

Greg has fortified himself behind Usenet tradition. If any change isn't
carried out exactly in the "correct" way then Greg refuses to give up his
crown. Let him keep his crown I say, just ignore him, he's irrelevent.

>I thought some people considered their points valid, sadly many of them
were
>lost in the noise. I certainly didn't read all the posts on this thread
>because it got so nasty and I _give_ a damn. I doubt anybody (except
>possibly Eagle) really kept up.
>
>All I'm saying is there is a now a valid forum for discussion, I doubt
>anybody has the energy to be nasty anymore. If you feel you have a valid
>point, make it, we'll discuss it. If not, the FAQ stays the same and all
>that bandwidth was wasted.

The tactic of invalidating the previous discussion won't work. It happened
and everyone can draw their own conclusions, one being that anyone can
submit their own FAQ and have it be just as valid as Greg's. If after
following this discussion people think Greg has handled himself in a
mature and respectable mannner then by all means follow his FAQ and Usenet
preachings. On the other hand, if anyone is tired of Greg's ramblings and
thinks the FAQ and Usenet traditions are too restrictive for PBM to
flourish in this newsgroup then ignore them.

Ken "Power To The People" Mitchell

References

Re: PROPOSAL: Vote on FAQ Revision
graeme@discreet.co.uk (Graeme Griffiths)
Tue, 22 Jul 1997 00:00:00 +0000