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From: mcb@k.cs.cmu.edu (Michael Browne)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: A new case for the proposed deletion of net.flame
Message-ID: <634@k.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: Thu, 7-Nov-85 17:12:34 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov  7 17:12:34 1985
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In article <24@andromeda.UUCP> marco@andromeda.UUCP (Louis Marco) writes:
>    If this is all such a pitiful waste of time, what is your
>    essay on why net.flame is a stupid, un-needed waste of valuable
>    resources doing in net.flame using up all the valuable resources?

It was posted to net.flame in order to give the net.flame supporters an
opportunity to respond.  (Something that the bizarre people never had.)

>    If you really believed all that stuff about rational discussion,
>    you would have posted a tasteful, rational article to wherever such
>    things get posted.

I believe that most of these articles WERE cross-posted to net.news.group
(the place for rational discussion (?)).  The anti-flame people are DOING
YOU A FAVOR by posting articles here as well!

>    If no one wanted this newsgroup, it seems to me it would
>    just dry up and disappear.

"Want" isn't important, "need" is.  (Just look at the volume that was posted
in net.bizarre and then tell me that the group wasn't wanted.  It wasn't
needed, that's all.)

Net.flame is a large group with very little information content.  So when
the bean counters attack, net.flame will be the first to go.  (OK, OK,
so net.bizarre was the first.  Net.flame is still very high on the list.)
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