Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site homxa.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!vax135!houxz!houxm!homxa!osd7 From: osd7@homxa.UUCP (Orlando Sotomayor-Diaz) Newsgroups: net.news.group Subject: Re: Kill net.general? Message-ID: <250@homxa.UUCP> Date: Fri, 22-Jun-84 08:03:52 EDT Article-I.D.: homxa.250 Posted: Fri Jun 22 08:03:52 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 23-Jun-84 03:00:16 EDT References: <1738@iddic.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 28 > Seems that a fair number of submissions to the net lately are > > deliberate attempts to irritate other net users, especially in net.general and > > net.jokes. The only answer to such behavior is to ignore it, or remove the > temptation. > Remove net.general. If we follow your logic, let's remove net.jokes also, and net.flame, and net.religion, and net.politics..... The behavior you mention is part of the USENET video-game. There's no way to get rid of it, unless each site monitors closely what's posted from it and takes some action against individuals whose main purpose is to irritate others via the electronic board. But then, that would be censorship, wouldn't it be? Poor old net.general, you're going to die. But let's make everybody aware of what net.announce is and how to use it. I support net.announce, and can care less about net.general since I don't subscribe to it. -- Orlando Sotomayor-Diaz/AT&T Bell Laboratories/201-949-1532 ....ihnp4!homxa!osd7 /Crawfords Crnr. Rd., Holmdel, NJ, 07733