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!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!k.cs.cmu.edu!mcb From: mcb@k.cs.cmu.edu (Michael Browne) Newsgroups: net.news.group Subject: The (Excruciatingly) Slow Death of Net.Flame Message-ID: <633@k.cs.cmu.edu> Date: Thu, 7-Nov-85 16:48:04 EST Article-I.D.: k.633 Posted: Thu Nov 7 16:48:04 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Nov-85 07:18:25 EST Reply-To: mcb@k.cs.cmu.edu (Michael Browne) Distribution: net Organization: Society for the Protection and Preservation of net.bizarre Lines: 15 It seems to me that at least a week ago, jj@alice posted a summary of the mail that he received about deleting net.flame. I don't remember the exact numbers, but I believe that the vote was approximately 100-3 in favor of deletion, with 8 people responding with obscenities. So when is net.flame going to die!? (Or is it going to die?) I'll agree that reforming net.sources.* is important, but even with all its problems, net.sources.* is a still useful source of information. Net.flame is almost as big with absolutely NO redeeming value. So let's delete it already! -- 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..."