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From: edward@ukecc.UUCP (Edward C. Bennett)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: time to remove net.bizarre
Message-ID: <259@ukecc.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 23-Sep-85 10:23:22 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 23 10:23:22 1985
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In article <645@ucsfcgl.UUCP>, arnold@ucsfcgl.UUCP (Ken Arnold%CGL) writes:
> In article <3275@nsc.UUCP> chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
> >	Chuqui says net.bizarre is a testbed for new net policy
> 
> What you say here makes a good deal of sense, but I have failed,
> throughout this discussion, to understand why net.bizarre is any worse
> than net.jokes.  Humor to noise ratio seems worse there to me, and
> probably others feel the opposite.  Maybe we should just tell the
> net.bizarre people to move to net.jokes, and then they will not be
> examined for appropriateness by the arbiters of what is bizarre, or
> what is funny.
> 		Ken

	From what I've seen people try to post funny stuff to net.jokes.
(Barring the recent license plate invasion of course.) But people
seem to be using net.bizarre to post any ol' thing, no matter how
stupid it is. Telling them to move to net.jokes won't reduce the
problem, only put it in somebody elses yard. The effect of net.bizarre
has been a drastic lowering of the overall IQ of the net. We need
to drop this infusion of crap. It serves no useful purpose to post
this junk worldwide. If people really feel they have to advertise
thier idiocy, let them do it in a local distribution.

	I, for one, plan on recommending to my SA that we drop
net.bizarre.

-- 
Edward C. Bennett

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