Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site seismo.CSS.GOV Path: utzoo!linus!gatech!seismo!rick 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 Distribution: na Organization: Center for Seismic Studies, Arlington, VA Lines: 24 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.