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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
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> > 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		
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