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[Jim Fleming]

On Thursday, February 27, 1997 3:31 PM, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
@ On Thu, 27 Feb 1997 13:19:39 CST, Jim Fleming said:
@ > Since only certain people control the web site, it is hard
@ > to make contributions other than minor corrections. There
@ > are several web sites out which now allow the particpants
@ > to collaborate on the content. The wiki-web comes to mind.
@ > If the people shaping ARIN want people to participate they
@ > could try that approach.
@ 
@ OK.. Assuming we *do* go to mass editing of the stuff, what keeps
@ some psycotic person from editing things so it looks like ARIN
@ is a wholly owned subsidiary of Black Helicopters Inc?
@ 
@ You either have "only certain people control it", or "everybody
@ can scribble on it".  And unless you go to "everybody scribble",
@ with the resulting change control issues, there will always be
@ somebody outside the "certain people" list who will feel oppressed
@ because of it.
@ 

Yes..."The Internet is in need of adult supervision"...

The Internet is also a very large place. Can you
estimate how many people know about ARIN,
how many people care about it, and furthermore,
how many are going to do as you suggest...?

Check the wiki-web to see if that happens...

--
Jim Fleming
Unir Corporation

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