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From: jj@alice.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Fear,loathing, and nut.flame should be next!
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Date: Fri, 25-Oct-85 10:19:36 EST
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Perhaps these untoward accusations in net.flame point out
the lack of necessity for nut.flame, Gene?  I've been
reading it for about two weeks now, and I haven't seen one
article of value (except to the poster, who relieved
his or her self in public) that wasn't posted
to two newsgroups (one of them nut.flame in spite of well known
and understood rules).

A few years ago, I used to digest net.flame, when the 
mod.ber group was created for moderated digests.  At that
time, nut.flame had a different (and perhaps it's intended)
nature, in that it contained a lot of articles with some basis
in logic or fact,  but that were written in rhetorically cheap
ways, using emotional blackmail, straw-man construction,
and the like.  At that time, nut.flame did NOT have the
gratituitous nature evidenced now, in particular, there
were few, and rapidly withdrawn, evidences of profanity,
obscenity, and suggestions for illegal acts.

Perhaps, in view of the overwhealming nature of nut traffic,
we should cut back on some of the groups that are hard to
justify when our bosses ask WHY we're forwarding this 
"slander, libel, insult, and plain childishness".  In fact,
I suggest that we (as a group) will HAVE to cut back on this
sort of traffic if we expect to see the net remain in place.
In particular, consider how hard it is to justify someone's
suggestion for an illegal act to a company lawyer who is 
already scared fecesless of nutnews due to the "potential liability
of sending all that stuff around".

Please don't mail insults and the like to me, I'll only throw them
out or give them to the police, if necessary.  If you want to
DISCUSS something, and you are able to quietly, reasonably,
and honestly do so, then write.  If not, save on all of our 
phone bills and contribute to the welfare of the net.

-- 
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