From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!cmcl2!philabs!sdcsvax!sdccsu3!li134ad Newsgroups: net.suicide Title: Net Suicide Article-I.D.: sdccsu3.318 Posted: Wed Feb 16 14:25:09 1983 Received: Sat Feb 19 12:49:14 1983 My experience with net suicide in the past weeks has made me a little doubtful as to the purpose of this newsgroup. I was one of the ones "censored" by rabbit!bimmler and his sophomoric cohorts, and I didn't much like it. I was also among the black-humorist kind of writers on this net, because it was fun, and there seemed to be little else that the newsgroup existed for. After the "takeover", I began to wonder. There really should be a place for people to write if they are very depressed and thinking about suicide, or are having problems with suicidal people. A place that is free of other trash ( the S/N ratio in the past couple of weeks has been atrocious ) where the serious people can talk. We black-humor people might use the |-) on our headers, or leave for net.jokes. People like rabbit!bimmler ( I over- compliment him with the term) should just leave entirely, as all they wanted to do was write a lot of tortured-intellectual bullshit and drool all over one another. I suggest we create a net.tortured_intellectual for them to wallow in, and for the rabbit buggerer himself there should be a net.takeover - a net for anyone to take over who can. Net suicide should remain for reasonable use, as a place to deal with such problems as depression and suicide. A supportive net, not one filled entirely with stupid people who want to censor. Ideas? Jack of Shadows. (UCSD)