On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 01:08:48 GMT, Larry Dighera wrote in :

So as a member of the Big-8 whose mission it is to impart organization
to Usenet ...

The group of which I am a member deals with eight Usenet hierarchies,
not the whole of Usenet.

The "organization" that we bring to these eight hierarchies is to
maintain a canonical list of newsgroups. What people do with those
newsgroups is beyond our powers of "organization."

When I write in my own name (as I did in this case), I am speaking
only for myself as a participant in r.a.p. I am not speaking on
behalf of the board.

... you have no qualms about nodes that inject spam articles
into the news stream?

If you want to campaign for Google to get the Usenet Death Penalty,
have at it. The big-8 board isn't involved in UDPs. Only the
news administrators can agree to isolate other news administrators.

I find that to be an interesting position, to
say the least.

Google has my profound gratitude and deepest sympathy.
I use their services every day--many times a day.
On balance, I think they do way more good than harm
to Usenet. YMMV.

Marty
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