Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ecsvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!mcnc!ecsvax!dgary From: dgary@ecsvax.UUCP (D Gary Grady) Newsgroups: net.news,net.news.group Subject: Re: Removing net.flame Message-ID: <1563@ecsvax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 5-Jul-85 13:26:34 EDT Article-I.D.: ecsvax.1563 Posted: Fri Jul 5 13:26:34 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 8-Jul-85 00:36:51 EDT References: <3892@alice.UUCP> <484@oliveb.UUCP>, <268@luke.UUCP> Organization: Duke U Comp Ctr Lines: 17 Xref: watmath net.news:3587 net.news.group:3230 > 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