grandparents who raped and pillaged

[Nick Vargish]

grante at visi.com (Grant Edwards) writes:

> Are there really votes on alt groups?

There used to be. Somone would get an idea for a group -- in the case
of alt.sex it was because a lot of people in soc.singles got tired of
all the "dirty talk" going on -- and they'd hold a CFV (call for
votes). If enough people, and I'm not sure what the target number was,
voted yes then the new group would be created and news admins around
the world would honor the newgrp command as it hit their servers.

You could always send out a newgrp without the CFV (and resulting
flam^H^H^H^H discussions), but it was a lot less likely that news
admins would honor the group's existence.

It was about as cooperative and orderly as any anarchy could be. I
have no idea how it works now... Thank Goddess I just read Usenet
these days, and no longer have to care for the servers or (l)users.

Nick

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