Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site alice.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!alice!jj From: jj@alice.UUCP Newsgroups: net.news,net.news.group Subject: Removing net.flame Message-ID: <3892@alice.UUCP> Date: Mon, 24-Jun-85 16:53:11 EDT Article-I.D.: alice.3892 Posted: Mon Jun 24 16:53:11 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Jun-85 08:05:34 EDT Organization: New Jersey State Farm for the Terminally Bewildered Lines: 37 Xref: watmath net.news:3482 net.news.group:3183 In the last few weeks, a spate of activity heretofore unknown on USENET has been seen in nut.flame. Due to the extremely prejudicial nature of this traffic, and to the continued insistance from those posting the "traffic" that nut.flame is an "anything goes" newsgroup in which questions of legality and net survival are not to be considered, I PROPOSE: It is in the interest of those who wish to see nutnews continue as the nation's number one use of cpu and user cycles to formally, and permanantly remove nut.flame from the list of newgroups supported by nutnews. Any site who wishes, desipite this lack of support, to continue carrying nut.flame may indeed do so, however, those who feel that it is inappropriate and prejudicial to the continued existance of the net may remove it and remain "USENET" subscribers. I do not propose this measure lightly, as it will undoubtedly lead to the slow but certain removal of many controversial newsgroups, and possibly expose the net to charges of censorship, however, it is clear that the time has come where responsible and informed system administrators may feel that netnews is a threat to their own freedom and financial wellbeing. If anyone can suggest another method to control the misuse of the network, I await your article. Serious mail comments will be replied to, threats, insults, obscenity and flames will be mailed to the net authority nearest your site. -- TEDDY BEARS MAY BECOME EXTINCT! HELP AN ENDANGERED SPECIES! "...So many years have passed, though I'm older but a year, my mother's eyes, from your eyes, cry to me." (ihnp4/allegra)!alice!jj