Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site timeinc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!mtung!mtunf!ariel!vax135!timeinc!greenber From: greenber@timeinc.UUCP (Ross M. Greenberg) Newsgroups: net.news Subject: Re: Is anyone else offended..... Message-ID: <270@timeinc.UUCP> Date: Thu, 27-Jun-85 14:06:28 EDT Article-I.D.: timeinc.270 Posted: Thu Jun 27 14:06:28 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 28-Jun-85 01:37:50 EDT References: <266@timeinc.UUCP> <2908@nsc.UUCP> Reply-To: greenber@timeinc.UUCP (Ross M. Greenberg) Organization: Time, Inc. - New York Lines: 37 Keywords: responsibility, liability, common sense, euthanasia Summary: Chuq: What you do at your site is up to you (of course). What you feed to other sites is quite a question! My feeling is that if you don't want net.flame at your site, then just let it pass through. OK...there is an expense associated with just "letting it pass through". So perhaps you can have the feeds that feed you net.flame feed the sites that you are currently feeding. (Did that last sentence make sense??? I think so.....) My only concern here is that some SA doesn't decide that some one news group, one that is valuable, isn't valuable at their site. So they pull the plug. Imagine what happens if ihnp4 decides that they only think that net.wombat is valuable. So the net degrades down to one newsgroup --- unless somebody up or down stream from ihnp4 decides that even net.wombat isn't important or valuable. Then we have no net! Perhaps some type of "policy" in the anarchy of USENET should be set such that if a site decides that they no longer wish to participate in a given news group, they can pull the plug on their machine without affecting anyone else on the net?? I can understand how you feel towards the Scott Turners of the world, but just think how their respective mothers feel. Would you want to take credit for the likes of him???? -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Ross M. Greenberg @ Time Inc, New York --------->{ihnp4 | vax135}!timeinc!greenber<--------- I highly doubt that Time Inc. they would make me their spokesperson.