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twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce) writes:

>Followups are directed out of rec.music.synth and rec.music.makers.synth.

Agreed. 

>>"It's a terrible idea to remove newsgroup participants from the name-decision
>>process . . .  You have no guarantee that the administrators understand the
>>proposed content well enough to place the group properly." -- Tim Pierce
>That's right, but I think it's also a terrible idea to remove
>administrators from the decision process, because you have no
>guarantee that the users understand Usenet hierarchy well enough to
>vote informedly on the issue.

Philosophy time. 

If a newsgroup name is lost in the namespace, and the users don't make
a sound, is it broken?

Now administrators in a voting process...that's a bias in itself when
taken with "ignorance of voting procedures is no excuse". Users are 
more ignorant than admins by definition. How do you want to deal with this?
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