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From: jrm@wdl1.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Net.Bizzare's Murder
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Date: Mon, 28-Oct-85 21:24:23 EST
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Posted: Mon Oct 28 21:24:23 1985
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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?