Acbosgd.865
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Sat Dec 26 17:23:58 1981
USENET committee formation idea
In discussing the committee notion with my in-laws, a similarity was pointed
out to the everyday problem of a child having two bosses (parents) either
of whom can authorize him to do something. If one says "yes" and the other
says "no", of course the child does it anyway. The usual parent solution is
to have both parents get together and see if either has an objection (this
is not practical with USENET since the committee might be very distributed)
or if this is not possible, to have policies so that the answer would generally
be the same no matter who made the decision. The reasons not to have a
single person committee ("dictator") are that no one person should have
total power, and that that one person might go on vacation or otherwise
be out of touch.
Then an interesting suggestion was made. The committee could have several
members, but only one of them would be "on duty" at any given time.
They could divide up the time to take a week or a month or whatever each.
The person who is "on duty" would be expected to log in often (preferably
at least once a day) and deal with matters such as creation of new newsgroups.
Presumably vacations and such could be scheduled around so that nobody
would take vacation during an "on-duty" time.
Mark Horton
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