Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site wdl1.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!hao!hplabs!fortune!wdl1!jrm From: jrm@wdl1.UUCP Newsgroups: net.news.group Subject: Net.Bizzare's Murder Message-ID: <807@wdl1.UUCP> Date: Mon, 28-Oct-85 21:24:23 EST Article-I.D.: wdl1.807 Posted: Mon Oct 28 21:24:23 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Nov-85 09:47:07 EST Sender: notes@wdl1.UUCP Organization: Ford Aerospace, Western Development Laboratories Lines: 49 Nf-ID: #N:wdl1:2900006:000:1951 Nf-From: wdl1!jrm Oct 28 12:40:00 1985 /***** wdl1:net.flame / jrm / 12:30 pm Oct 21, 1985*/ The following is mail sent to Gene Spafford (gatech!spaf) in response to his posting in net.announce regarding the murder of net.bizzarre (sp?). I suggest that memorial services for net.bizzarre be held in net.general. ************************************** Check fuel. Set intensity to KILL. Open FIRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ************************************** All right, so you're not a net-fascist; you're a net-jerk. Your mother must be proud of you. We are aware that there always has been a small number of people on the net who disapproved of net.bizzarre; however, it established its right to exist by the fact that a much larger number of people approved of it. This is proven by the very activity in the group that ypu find so objectionable. So you overrule the majority, but you're not a fascist. Are you a communist instead? They operate by these sorts of rules,too. So the situation is that: If too few people are interested in a group, it dies. If too many people are interested in a group, it dies. You want to have it both ways. If it is desired to take the net all the way back to being strictly technical, I could go along with that. At least there is some logic to it. HOWEVER, saying that net.bizzarre is number one on the hit list indicates brain damage. It is an interesting group that is mostly peaceable and civilized; its flame and slander content is remarkably low. If you are going to kill groups, I think there are better places to start. Or do you consider that net.flame and net.abortion have redeeming social value? Yes, I'll sign it. Jim McGowan fortune!wdl1!jrm /* ---------- */ P.S. This may be considered a vote for the re-creation of net.bizarre. I also failed to see any notice in net.bizarre that it was being considered for deletion. Surely you net fascists are not going to continue to maintain that such a posting was made?