Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site opus.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!hao!cires!nbires!opus!rcd From: rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn) Newsgroups: net.followup Subject: Re: re serious proposals to abolish Message-ID: <1010@opus.UUCP> Date: Tue, 8-Jan-85 02:31:44 EST Article-I.D.: opus.1010 Posted: Tue Jan 8 02:31:44 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 10-Jan-85 07:02:19 EST References: <802@hound.UUCP> Organization: NBI,Inc, Boulder CO Lines: 26 A comment on a suggestion to abolish net.general: > In my opinion, one of the big sources of trouble in our society is > the mentality that says: "I don't like it, therefore it should be > banned/abolished/destroyed etc.". If you don't LIKE net.general, > then don't READ net.general. In my opinion, the suggestion to abolish net.general was a suggestion to get rid of something that doesn't work and hasn't worked particularly well for a long time. It has little or nothing to do with any general social malaise but a lot to do with general misunderstanding of net.general. Based on what's submitted, I'd like to read the 20% or so that actually belongs there, but as far as I can tell, there's no option to readnews, vnews, or even rn, which allows me to specify "read only articles submitted by people clever enough to find out what the newsgroup is for before they submit an article to it." I don't necessarily care to see it abolished--but we really oughta either fix it or throw it away, and it's damned tough to fix it when there are so many sites that won't spend 30 seconds educating a new netnews user even enough to keep him from submitting all manner of crap to net.general. If you don't think it should be abolished, why not suggest how to get it used for its intended and stated purpose? -- Dick Dunn {hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd (303)444-5710 x3086 ...Nothing left to do but smile, smile, smile.