Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ucla-cs.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!trwrb!trwrba!cepu!ucla-cs!rick From: rick@ucla-cs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Was Alex really so bad? Message-ID: <6156@ucla-cs.ARPA> Date: Wed, 26-Jun-85 19:13:15 EDT Article-I.D.: ucla-cs.6156 Posted: Wed Jun 26 19:13:15 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 29-Jun-85 23:45:33 EDT Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Lines: 19 <<< this line is for shitty little bugs >>> Ok, everyone is dumping on Alex for his (admittedly stupid) cross-followup to inappropriate groups. Now I want to dump on the stupid idiots who assume that half the people on the net want to read their rantings and so they post to 4 or 5 groups (usually net.politics, net.women, net.flame, net.singles, ...). Well that's just dandy, but I just spent a half hour cleaning up my .newsrc file because of a line that was too long because of this. The line in question? net.politics! I don't even subscribe to it, but because of these fuck-heads who post everywhere they can think of I was a victim (rn updates for every group mentioned in the posting, I guess). Was Alex's little "joke" any worse? Why? Because it affected more people? Sorry, but I DON'T buy that one. To me it is just the same. So take your multi-group postings and send them to /dev/null! -- Rick Gillespie ARPANET: rick@ucla-locus.ARPA or (soon) rick@LOCUS.UCLA.EDU UUCP: ...!{cepu|ihnp4|sdcrdcf|ucbvax}!ucla-cs!rick SPUDNET: ...eye%rick@russet.spud