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From: david@ukma.UUCP (David Herron, NPR Lover)
Newsgroups: net.news,net.flame
Subject: Re: Is anyone else offended.....
Message-ID: <1930@ukma.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 30-Jun-85 13:34:48 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jun 30 13:34:48 1985
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Reply-To: david@ukma.UUCP (David Herron, NPR Lover)
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In article <261@ihdev.UUCP> rjv@ihdev.UUCP (R. J. Vaughn) writes:
>yes, there are assholes on the net and you are probably right in this
>case, but then some SA says "i'm not here to run a dating service,
>no more net.singles." see where this leads?  you have a good arguement
>for cutting out net.flame, but pull your head out --  >50% of the
>stuff that comes across *all* the newsgroups is crap or huge quotes of previous
>crap.  your arguments for dumping net.flame could be applied to
>a LOT of groups by any SA.  thats' why people don't like seeing an
>SA dump a group, it's just a start. and once the idea catches on,
>we'll have every other site passing on every other news group, the
>whole 'system' could be fouled up that way.


One way of viewing this is as "evolution".

Much of Unix is the way it is because of evolution.  So why not 
our biggest playground?

We are talking about scarce resources here.  Computer time, phone money,
and disk space.  Different sites are squeezed in different ways.
But the squeeze is causing competition amongst the newsgroups
for these resources.  Some groups will die.  Either because places
don't want to carry them any more, or there will be a common agreement
to go ahead and rmgrp the group.

Tell me something.  What's really wrong with dumping a group?  Isn't
that act a statement that somebody doesn't feel that the subject is
worth listening to?  That it isn't worth bringing a few hundred miles
over phone lines just so it can be thrown away?  Isn't it up to the
newsgroup itself to make sure of it's survival?

I'm personally tired of paying for net.flame.  On the other hand, there
are people at this site who regard that group as a fun-filled free-for-all.
Sigh.  At any rate .. JJ, count a FOR vote for KILLING net.flame please.


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