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From: rick@seismo.CSS.GOV (Rick Adams)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: net.flame will no longer be distributed by many sites
Message-ID: <738@seismo.CSS.GOV>
Date: Fri, 8-Nov-85 20:49:06 EST
Article-I.D.: seismo.738
Posted: Fri Nov  8 20:49:06 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 9-Nov-85 06:51:22 EST
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Organization: Center for Seismic Studies, Arlington, VA
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Keywords: bye-bye

net.flame will no longer be distributed by or through the following sites:
	seismo, cbosgd, hao, decvax, gatech, burl, sdcsvax

Other backbone sites may or may not continue to do so. I expect many
of them to stop. It was never distributed outside North America
No rmgroup will be issued.  If you feel you need net.flame, you are free 
o continue to distribute it at your own expense, not ours.

Those with long memories will remember that net.flame started as a joke.
It eventually built up a small following on its own. Lately it has
reached unreasonable volumes (the signal was always 0, the noise 1).

Since net.bizarre was removed, it seems unreasonable to support a group
whose sole purpose is flaming. It encouraged the waste of what
is fast becoming a scarce resource.

The removal of net.flame and net.bizarre by certain sites is the
beginning of a re-examination of what this network has become and where
those who are supporting it think it should go. Net.flame was not the first
to fail to meet the minimum standards and I suspect it will not be the last.

---rick

p.s. I never read nor respond to abusive mail.