Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site wcom.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!mtung!mtunf!ariel!vax135!timeinc!wcom!frodo From: frodo@wcom.UUCP (Jim Scardelis) Newsgroups: net.news,net.news.group Subject: Re: Removing net.flame Message-ID: <139@wcom.UUCP> Date: Mon, 8-Jul-85 11:58:08 EDT Article-I.D.: wcom.139 Posted: Mon Jul 8 11:58:08 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 9-Jul-85 06:36:30 EDT References: <3892@alice.UUCP> <484@oliveb.UUCP>, <268@luke.UUCP> <1563@ecsvax.UUCP> Organization: Warner Computer Systems - Saddle Brook, NJ Lines: 34 Xref: watmath net.news:3598 net.news.group:3237 > > It seems that the simplest thing to do is ignore it if you don't like > > it. I've actually heard of people who've never even READ net.flame > > (shocking! :^>~). > > *** > > * Steven List @ Benetics Corporation, Mt. View, CA > > * {cdp,greipa,idi,oliveb,sun,tolerant}!bene!luke!steven > > You've missed the point of the prior discussion, which was not just that > net.flame was offensive to some, but that (1) it takes up gobs of disk > space, communications time, and the like, and (2) it might at least > theoretically leave a site passing it open to libel suits. Ignoring > net.flame hardly deals with those two problems. > -- > D Gary Grady > Duke U Comp Center, Durham, NC 27706 > (919) 684-3695 > USENET: {seismo,decvax,ihnp4,akgua,etc.}!mcnc!ecsvax!dgary And removing net.flame doesn't deal with them either, it just moves the problem out into all the other newsgroups where we don't want to see the flames. The best solution is a patch to inews insuring that flames go to net.flame and not to multiple newsgroups. Incidentally, wcom is an IBM PC/AT with *very* limited disk space, so we only get a limited news feed from timeinc, consisting of the newsgroups that were demanded by my users. Net.flame is one of them. -- Jim Scardelis uucp: {vax135|ihnp4}!timeinc!wcom!frodo ARPA: 1891@NJIT-EIES.MAILNET@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA "The opinions expressed herein are those of my computer, and not necessarily those of myself, Warner Computer Systems, or any other computer or company along the line. "