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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
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>	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