Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxd!rlr From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Direct flame at those who make up lists of "boring people" Message-ID: <221@pyuxd.UUCP> Date: Thu, 25-Oct-84 11:42:14 EDT Article-I.D.: pyuxd.221 Posted: Thu Oct 25 11:42:14 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 26-Oct-84 09:11:55 EDT Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway N.J. Lines: 46 Our friends at the 'down' system, Peter Honeyman and ??? North, have performed a "wonderful" service for the net. They have formulated a list of "boring people", and have put them all on a mailing list. (THEY, of course, are on another list called "fun-people". Note that the word "wonderful" is in quotes for a reason.) Most of the people on this list were never informed of their inclusion. (I was told about my inclusion months ago---and told by Mr. Honeynorth that I had no choice in the matter; others were probably included later once they figured out how to implement this scheme.) This is "wonderful" for several reasons: 1. You get tons of useless mail consisting mostly of people complaining about Honeynorth's elitist/snobbish/assaholic behavior for putting people he doesn't like on a list of "boring people" while they get on a list of "fun people" (probably just the two of them; note how the names of the lists have been accidentally/incompetently reversed. :-) (Yes, I include my own diatribe on the subject that I mailed to the list among the "useless", though Mark Callow's quoting of Byron on the subject of who is REALLY the snob---the one who is labelled as such or the labeller---was probably not.) 2. If you should choose to respond to this mailing list with a) a request to get off of it (which they have already stated that they would ignore) and/or b) mocking their silliness and ridiculousness for making the mailing alias in the first place, you a) get your own letter mailed back to you (since you ARE on the list) and b) get tons of error messages from various mailers because the "postmen" failed to set up the list properly with correct addresses. I suggest that anyone choosing to mail to the alias address for this mailing list should also send a copy (CC:) to 'honey' and 'north' on the same machine. Why shouldn't *they* have to filter through all the stuff that everybody on the list gets swamped with without their consent? (Lest you think that honeynorth really did pick only boring people because you see that *I* have been included, let it be said that large numbers of people on both sides of all arguments I've seen on the net have been included, including some people who don't "argue" at all. I would recommend that the members of the list should actually be honey, north, and perhaps Ken Arndt to add a bit of class to the membership. They could even change the name from "boring people" to "fun people" or "clever intelligent people" if they like. Lots of people get to live under delusions; why not them?...) -- AT THE TONE PLEASE LEAVE YOUR NAME AND NET ADDRESS. THANK YOU. Rich Rosen pyuxd!rlr