Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pucc-k Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!pucc-k!rsk From: rsk@pucc-k (Wombat) Newsgroups: net.news.group,net.flame Subject: net.bizarre is just the first... Message-ID: <1319@pucc-k> Date: Tue, 29-Oct-85 15:22:31 EST Article-I.D.: pucc-k.1319 Posted: Tue Oct 29 15:22:31 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 30-Oct-85 07:31:54 EST Organization: Purdue University Lines: 33 Xref: watmath net.news.group:4077 net.flame:12550 References: Sender: Reply-To: rsk@pucc-k.UUCP (Wombat) Followup-To: Distribution: Organization: Purdue University Keywords: paying the piper First off, I support the decision made by the backbone site admins and implemented by Gene Spafford 100%. And now...a mini-editorial: It's about time all of us wake up to the reality that Usenet is not some bulletin board running on a PC somewhere; it's a damn big network that costs a lot of money and time to keep running. It's not an anarchy; maybe it never was. It is controlled in large part by the backbone sites, who pay for a lot of this, and by the volunteers (like Spaf, the Hortons, Chuq, Rick Adams, Larry Wall) who spend their time working on software, documents, and so on for it. These people have bent over backwards to make Usenet more organized, more cost-effective, and more acessible; if you object to what they're doing, then maybe *you* should run a backbone site, and then *you* can run your chunk of the net the way *you* like. A now...a comment. I've been bringing up news 2.10.3 on our machines; and I've been looking at the news we receive rather closely, since in the interim I've been forwarding it by hand. net.bizarre is permanently dead at this site. I think net.religion, net.politics, and net.philosophy are next, simply because they are soapboxes (and big ones at that) with little or no redeeming value. I expect that the deletion of these four groups will cut our volume by 25%, maybe more. -- Rich Kulawiec rsk@pur-ee.uucp rsk@purdue.uucp rsk@purdue-asc.arpa