Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site im4u.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!ut-sally!im4u!jsq From: jsq@im4u.UUCP (John Quarterman) Newsgroups: net.news.group Subject: Re: proposed destruction of net.bizarre Message-ID: <596@im4u.UUCP> Date: Thu, 24-Oct-85 23:15:30 EDT Article-I.D.: im4u.596 Posted: Thu Oct 24 23:15:30 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 26-Oct-85 05:34:27 EDT References: <762@adobe.UUCP> <1686@gatech.CSNET> Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas Lines: 27 > So, the net is an anarchy, is it? Well, I'm just exercising my > rights under an anarchy -- I'm issuing "rmgroup" messages. ... > And by the way, although some people like to proclaim that the > net is an anarchy, it isn't actually. And it hasn't been for > a long, long time. But that is a different discussion. > -- > Gene "sometime in 1986" Spafford Well, I'd like to know what your definition of anarchy is. Also whether you've ever read any Kropotkin or Bakunin. And what form of government or lack thereof you think USENET resembles. By the way, I think you're right about net.bizarre: it was a bad idea from the first and got worse. But you're wrong about net.internat: it's too verbose and it should have been a moderated newsgroup, but it serves a real purpose and is of more value than 80% of other newsgroups. Claiming the only question is due process and not content of the newsgroups is petty and undeserving of you and the others supporting that view. -- John Quarterman, UUCP: {ihnp4,seismo,harvard,gatech}!ut-sally!jsq ARPA Internet and CSNET: jsq@sally.UTEXAS.EDU, formerly jsq@ut-sally.ARPA