From: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 12:12:13 -0800 (PST)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: alt.cypherpunks
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Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com> writes:

> Hey, folks,
> 
> I thought all you had to do to create an alt.group was to have a news admin
> somewhere just make a group; send out a control message of somekind. I
> thought that alt groups didn't have to go through a charter, or voting
> process, or anything else. They just happened.
> 
> Then, everyone just has to tell their local news admin that they went to
> see it, or they can wait until their news admin sees it flying by, and adds
> it to the available groups list at his own discretion.
> 
> It's not like we want comp.cypherpunks or something, with a voting process,
> right?

The voting process is not that bad - it'll easily pass if a fraction of
people now subscribed to this mailing list votes yes.

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