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From: jsq@im4u.UUCP (John Quarterman)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: proposed destruction of net.bizarre
Message-ID: <596@im4u.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 24-Oct-85 23:15:30 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 24 23:15:30 1985
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> So, the net is an anarchy, is it?  Well, I'm just exercising my
> rights under an anarchy -- I'm issuing "rmgroup" messages.
...
> And by the way, although some people like to proclaim that the
> net is an anarchy, it isn't actually.  And it hasn't been for
> a long, long time.  But that is a different discussion.
> -- 
> Gene "sometime in 1986" Spafford

Well, I'd like to know what your definition of anarchy is.
Also whether you've ever read any Kropotkin or Bakunin.
And what form of government or lack thereof you think
USENET resembles.

By the way, I think you're right about net.bizarre:
it was a bad idea from the first and got worse.
But you're wrong about net.internat:  it's too verbose
and it should have been a moderated newsgroup, but it
serves a real purpose and is of more value than 80% of
other newsgroups.

Claiming the only question is due process and not content
of the newsgroups is petty and undeserving of you and the
others supporting that view.
-- 
John Quarterman,   UUCP:  {ihnp4,seismo,harvard,gatech}!ut-sally!jsq
ARPA Internet and CSNET:  jsq@sally.UTEXAS.EDU, formerly jsq@ut-sally.ARPA