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