From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!esquire!nrh Newsgroups: net.news.group Title: Re: net.chew-the-fat - (nf) Article-I.D.: esquire.365 Posted: Sat Jul 3 21:24:30 1982 Received: Sun Jul 4 01:34:29 1982 References: harpo.840 I agree with harpo!ber. There's already such a small information/garbage ratio on the net that I wonder that the packet driver allows stuff through. Surely people have learned this from netnews: if there is a free forum for flaming, personal opinions (supported or otherwise), nit-picking, political arguments (informed and otherwise), and other useless drivel, it will be used. Extensively. I'm all for freedom of speech, though, so I make the following suggestion: Why not start a subnet called something like "flame", "pol", or "arg", for this political stuff? That way, one could post to "pol.bombs", instead of fa.arms-d, or "arg.movies" for arguments on whether (whether? I meant WHEN!) Spock will return. Nuke the Newsgroups! - Nat Howard esquire!nrh