Acbosgd.865 net.news utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ihnss!cbosg!cbosgd!mark 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.