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From: john@moncol.UUCP (John Ruschmeyer)
Newsgroups: net.flame,net.news.group
Subject: Re: A new case for the proposed deletion of net.flame
Message-ID: <552@moncol.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 31-Oct-85 10:02:10 EST
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Posted: Thu Oct 31 10:02:10 1985
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>From: rjv@ihdev.UUCP (ron vaughn)
>Message-ID: <376@ihdev.UUCP>
>Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
>
>In article <4494@alice.UUCP> jj@alice.UUCP writes:
>>IT'S TIME!  I CALL ON NET ADMINISTRATORS WHO WANT THE NET TO
>>CONTINUE TO EXIST TO START THE DISCUSSION!
>
>pull your head out.  if there ISN'T a flame, it will rear it's ugly head
>in all the other groups.  at least in net.* if people get "out of line" you
>can say "move this to flame, that's what it's there for,"  and most of the 
>time they do.  at least now all of us flamer types and pseudo flamers, and
>even the jerks (arndt etc.) play in the sandbox here.  without flame, the
>rest of the USENET community will pay the price.

I disagree with that. Much of net.flame is already cross-posted to other
groups such as net.politics and net.religion. Those flames would exist with
or without net.flame. Also, flames exist independent of net.flame already-
try putting a posting in net.micro praising the 80x86 over the 680x0 or
vice versa; you will need an asbestos terminal.

Rather, net.flame seems to be more like net.bizarre, but with some sort of
permission (no, not a raison d'etre). When net.bizarre was first being
considered for "official" creation, many worried that by not creating the
group, the other net groups would become deluged with postings that should
have been in net.bizarre. Well, net.bizarre is now dead (actually, it's
most sincerely dead) and none of the deluge has come. I think that the
general sensibility of *most* netters is such that they realize that if
something is not *that* important and there is no apropriate group, then it
may not be worth posting.

To say "move this to net.flame, that's what it's there for" is a lot like
saying "post it to net.bizarre, they'll like it there".


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