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From: mff@wuphys.UUCP (Swamp Thing)
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Subject: Re: Time to set something straight... [warning: substantive!]
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Date: Fri, 1-Nov-85 11:39:53 EST
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In article <1265@sphinx.UCHICAGO.UUCP> benn@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Thomas Cox) writes:
>[]
>An open letter to the masses debating, either vocally or internally, the
>implications of Spaf-et-al's removal of net.bizarre and net.internat:
>
>Dear people:
>	One of the many letters we've seen about the removal of net.bizarre
>and net.internat raged on about the collective desires of the USENET
>community
>
>	Does anyone doubt that there is a significant and growing amount of
>money at stake?
>
>Sincerely,
>Thomas Cox
>...!ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!benn

I agree with most of what you say.  However, I beleive that Gene Spafford has
gone about this in a way which was guaranteed to stir up trouble.  THE problem
is money.  It's not whether group X was created illegaly or not.  If Gene had
been more forthright and come out stating "Look guys, if we don't cut down
traffic, the s*** is going to hit the fan.", and then asked for suggestions, we
could have discussed this pretty much rationally.  However, by hiding behind a
facade of rule enforcement and taking essentially unilateral action
(particularly with net.internat), what we got instead was useless controversy.

						Mark F. Flynn
						Department of Physics
						Washington University
						St. Louis, MO  63130
						ihnp4!wuphys!mff

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