From: d9bertil@dtek.chalmers.se (Bertil Jonell):

They, and I'm talking of a cabal of seven persons calling themselves the "US Hierarchy Coordinating Committee" out of a net population of twenty million, want to sneak through severe changes in the newgroup creation procedures that would put them in absolute command of the us.* hierarchy.

Whoever wrote this is a moron who doesn't understand the newsgroup creation process. (Do I? I'm a UVV member.) David Lawrence, one of the US Hierarchy Coordinating Committe, already has absolute control over newsgroup creation as the moderator of news.announce.newgroups. He occasionally uses it to stop brain-damaged proposals from going through. USEnet is not a democracy, and it never has been. Followups to news-newusers-questions@uunet.uu.net, please. This has no c'punk content, except the desire to head off a stupid thread.