Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC840302); site mcvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!teddy!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!mcvax!piet From: piet@mcvax.UUCP (Piet Beertema) Newsgroups: net.followup Subject: Re: re serious proposals to abolish Message-ID: <398@mcvax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 7-Jan-85 11:24:29 EST Article-I.D.: mcvax.398 Posted: Mon Jan 7 11:24:29 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 9-Jan-85 02:53:41 EST References: <802@hound.UUCP> Reply-To: piet@mcvax.UUCP (Piet Beertema) Distribution: net Organization: CWI, Amsterdam Lines: 14 >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, one of the big sources of trouble is to pick whatever is first at hand and seems likely; this is certainly the case with net.general, if only because of its name. Then just not reading it doesn't help very much, the article has been sent already to sites all over this world. And *that* is the real problem. -- Piet Beertema, CWI, Amsterdam ...{decvax,philabs}!mcvax!piet