Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site k.cs.cmu.edu Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!k.cs.cmu.edu!mcb From: mcb@k.cs.cmu.edu (Michael Browne) Newsgroups: net.news.group,net.flame Subject: Re: proposed destruction of net.bizarre Message-ID: <621@k.cs.cmu.edu> Date: Sun, 27-Oct-85 14:01:25 EST Article-I.D.: k.621 Posted: Sun Oct 27 14:01:25 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 29-Oct-85 04:44:41 EST References: <384@cad.cs.cmu.edu> <32378@lanl.ARPA> Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI Lines: 24 Xref: watmath net.news.group:4050 net.flame:12534 In article <32378@lanl.ARPA> hhg@a.UUCP (Harold H Gaines) writes: >... In light of this, I believe that since the following groups are >strictly for the information of the individual, and not the organizations we >are associated with, they should be removed along with net.bizarre: > > net.abortion > net.bicycle > ... > et cetera >If recreational groups like net.bizarre are so terrible, I believe that for >Justice's sake all of them should be removed. > Harold H Gaines I agree. I vote to remove ALL of these groups, AND net.flame. Net.bizarre may have been "silly" and "worthless", but it was rarely offensive. Net.flame IS offensive. (Remember this summer's discussion of "Women and the Consumption of Toilet Paper"??) If net.bizarre deserves to die, then net.flame deserves to die a thousand times over. --Mike -- UUCP: ..!seismo!k.cs.cmu.edu!mcb ARPA: mcb@k.cs.cmu.edu "It came time to move, so I packed up my Salvador Dali print of two blindfolded dental hygienists trying to make a circle on an Etch-a-Sketch..."