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From: rwl@uvacs.UUCP (Ray Lubinsky)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Newsgroups ignoramuses
Message-ID: <1764@uvacs.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 20-Dec-84 12:20:55 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 20 12:20:55 1984
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> There are an entire series of articles in net.abortion, net.politics,
> net.religion, and net.philosophy which have absolutely nothing to do
> with any of those subjects.
> 
> They are flames.
> 
> GET THEM THE FUCK OUT OF THOSE GROUPS AND INTO THIS ONE WHERE THEY BELONG!!!
> 
> This flame brought to you by the end of my patience.
> 
> 					Evelyn C. Leeper
> ==> Note new net address:		...ihnp4!ahuta!ecl
> (Mail sent to my old address will be forwarded temporarily.)

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   Au contraire!  I think the beauty of the net is the utter chaos with which
packets of data (hm...) zing across the country with no particular destination.
Perhaps the newsgroups are just an artifact of Man's desire to bring order to
the inherent disorder of the net.

   But isn't that just like us humans? How dare we constrain the creative
process by mere propriety?  Is there no longer respect for the stochastics of
human thought?  ...No, I didn't think so.  Oh, well.  Perhaps I'm just a
maverick -- I sort of enjoy the current firefights in net.sources.  Makes my
morning a little spicier.

   So, please, if you are flaming in another newsgroup, by all means continue!
Reject the imposed order of the net.faschistas.  Up with stochastics!  (And
remember, as Evelyn pointed out so succinctly, that Art imitates Freud.)


   This meta-meta-flame has been brought to you by the end of Evelyn C.
Leeper's patience.

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Ray Lubinsky		     University of Virginia, Dept. of Computer Science
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