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From: bukys@rochester.UUCP (Liudvikas Bukys)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: keyword news
Message-ID: <5702@rochester.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 19-Mar-84 09:39:00 EST
Article-I.D.: rocheste.5702
Posted: Mon Mar 19 09:39:00 1984
Date-Received: Tue, 20-Mar-84 01:23:12 EST
Organization: U. of Rochester, CS Dept.
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Look, all you keyword news lovers:  most everybody agrees that keyword
news would be an interesting experiment at worst, and could be
wonderful at best.  But instead of periodically flaming in new.news.*
about newsgroup debates, why don't you write some code?  It's all very
well to criticize the current system, when it's somebody else who has
written the code and somebody else who maintains it.  But until you
write some new code and put it into operation somewhere, your
complaints are just sparrow farts.  The current system works.  The
vaguely proposed systems don't even exist.  Put up or shut up.

[ P.S.	This should not be taken as disapproval for anyone's attempts
	to design a keyword news system.  That, at least, is a serious
	effort.  What I'm complaining about is the arm-chair attitude
	that it would take but a mere thought to transform the whole
	net into Paradise. ]

Here's to more vitriol in net.flame!