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