Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihdev.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!ihdev!rjv From: rjv@ihdev.UUCP (ron vaughn) Newsgroups: net.news,net.flame Subject: Re: Re: Is anyone else offended..... Message-ID: <261@ihdev.UUCP> Date: Sat, 29-Jun-85 14:34:07 EDT Article-I.D.: ihdev.261 Posted: Sat Jun 29 14:34:07 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 30-Jun-85 02:27:10 EDT References: <266@timeinc.UUCP> <2908@nsc.UUCP> <128@maynard.UUCP> Reply-To: rjv@ihdev.UUCP (R. J. Vaughn) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 29 Xref: watmath net.news:3532 net.flame:10889 Summary: jesus christ chuq. are you long winded or what? if you have a point to make, make it, but just becuase you like to listen to yourself type doesn't mean others do. in some respects i agree with you, but if it takes 104,321 lines to explain it..... 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. chuq - don't come back with 84 screens of counter argument explaining all sides of the issue and logically reaching all possible conclusions and anticipating all my questions and hitting on all tangent topics and...... i normally agree with you, but my god, if anyone can stretch a few good sentences of thought into a few screenfulls of ascii... :-) just say what you mean and don't make your articles so long everyone skips them. back to sleep zzzzzzzz... ron vaughn ...!ihnp4!ihdev!rjv