Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site daemen.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!rochester!rocksanne!sunybcs!daemen!wersan From: wersan@daemen.UUCP (John Slasher Wersan III) Newsgroups: net.news.group Subject: Re: Re: proposed destruction of net.bizarre Message-ID: <1348@daemen.UUCP> Date: Mon, 4-Nov-85 19:51:45 EST Article-I.D.: daemen.1348 Posted: Mon Nov 4 19:51:45 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 7-Nov-85 06:21:24 EST References: <762@adobe.UUCP> Organization: Daemen College, Computer Science Department, Buffalo, NY Lines: 38 > Keywords: The hell you say > > Sort of an open letter to Gene Spafford: > > You and your backbone site friends have every right to not FORWARD > net.bizarre, and you probably would be justified in doing so. I read > net.bizarre, and have even been known to post to it, but it is true > that the group is filled with drivel and nonsense. > ....... > > YOU HAVE NO MORE RIGHT TO DESTROY A NEWSGROUP WITHOUT POLLING PEOPLE > THAN I DO TO CREATE ONE WITHOUT ASKING YOU. > > I don't belive in the wasting of resources for nerds to post > the value of pi, but fair is fair. > > Glenn Reid {backbone | backbone | decwrl | glacier}!adobe!greid > As a co-news administrater, when I saw the rmgroup control message reach our site, I took it with a heavy heart, one of the few things that I looked forward to was the things that I would read in net.bizarre. But as it was pointed out the cost was very high, so I accepted the removal of the group. But after reading this article, what I think would have been a better way, was to have those sites that did not want to receive the group just to remove it at their site, or not accept the newsgroup at all. Then those sites that still wanted it could keep it. -- John Wersan UUCP : {decvax,dual,rocksanne,rocksvax}!sunybcs!daemen!wersan inhp4!kitty!daemen!wersan "The doctor said I had dain bramage... But my friends don't know what 'dat shit is"