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* European Autonomy and Domestic Meddlers
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Tom Jennings, 1:125/111
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Jun 89
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Since I see my name is getting dragged into this, I thought I'd
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respond on the subject of Zone 2's autonomy, which is really an
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issue of control.
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First of all, no one need worry about trademark abuse; I am in
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contact with all parties involved, and there is nothing to worry
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about. Things will be settled to everyones benefit and
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satisfaction. No further discussion is needed on this matter.
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It is none of our business how Zone 2 (or any other zone) runs
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their network(s), other than how they interface to us, just as it
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is no business to net 125 how net XYZ runs theirs, unless it
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somehow physically affects our operation. If they have different
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criteria for joining a network, what business is it of ours? To
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meddle ahead of time "in case they do something awful", is silly;
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they are no more (or less) likely to do something stupid than we
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in Zone 1 are. Europe is not just the U.S.-only-different; it is
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a totally different environment, socially, technically, legally
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and politically. Europe is none of our damn business.
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Zone 1 is not the police force of the world. Have we not learned
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our lessons from other arenas? We do not "have" a unified world-wide network, nor is such a thing even desirable. What we do have
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is a number of cooperative networks, that can cooperate in a
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world-wide networking effort. This is a critical difference.
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Unfortunately, meddlers and control freaks will not give up until
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everything not exactly like themselves is squashed or controlled.
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Or they are in turn removed. We have a growing bureaucracy in our
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Zone 1 that wants to reorganize us from being a bottom-up
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network, where sysops choose their net hosts and other /0's, and
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determine how to run their own BBS, nets and lives, to one
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(according to POLICY4) where the existing bureaucracy picks their
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own region and net hosts. Bureaucrats always tell us, if they can
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control this one more thing, then all the problems will be
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solved.
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Our network has never run smoothly, and I propose that it will
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*never* run smoothly; this is good, not bad. It means we're
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alive, only dead rigid bureaucracies are pure order. (Or pretend
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they are.) Excessive order is not good for any organism. It
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stifles creativity and free expression. Let's take a hint from
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history, OK?
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