Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site hplabs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!hplabs!faunt From: faunt@hplabs.UUCP (Doug Faunt) Newsgroups: net.news.group Subject: Re: net.bizarre Message-ID: <2208@hplabs.UUCP> Date: Thu, 19-Sep-85 15:37:12 EDT Article-I.D.: hplabs.2208 Posted: Thu Sep 19 15:37:12 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 20-Sep-85 05:48:38 EDT References: <617@bu-cs.UUCP>, <585@magic.UUCP> <475@petfe.UUCP> Organization: Hewlett Packard Labs, Palo Alto CA Lines: 16 > cause more grief than it's creation. People now have an outlet (and I > feel a reasonably good one) for creativity and silliness (there is no > net.silly), and as a result, postings of this sort have left the > net.flame area. Flame has returned to more of what it ought to be: > angry ravings, and unmoderated arguments. It has lost a lot of its > silliness, and probably a lot of its readers, AND traffic volume. > > the other users before taking it away? Maybe we need the creation of > net.silly???????? (half-joke) > net.news.group seems to be doing just fine as a stand-in for net.silly. -- ....!hplabs!faunt faunt%hplabs@csnet-relay.ARPA HP is not responsible for anything I say here. In fact, what I say here may have been generated by a noisy telephone line.