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From: ins_akaa@jhunix.UUCP (Kenneth Adam Arromdee)
Newsgroups: net.news.group,net.flame,net.religion,net.politics,net.philosophy
Subject: Re: net.bizarre is just the first...
Message-ID: <1085@jhunix.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 1-Nov-85 12:12:47 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov  1 12:12:47 1985
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Reply-To: ins_akaa@jhunix.ARPA (Kenneth Adam Arromdee)
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In article <1319@pucc-k> rsk@pucc-k (Wombat) writes:
>First off, I support the decision made by the backbone site admins and
>implemented by Gene Spafford 100%.
>
>net.bizarre is permanently dead at this site.
>I think net.religion, net.politics, and net.philosophy are next, simply
>because they are soapboxes (and big ones at that) with little or no redeeming
>value.  I expect that the deletion of these four groups will cut our volume
>by 25%, maybe more.
>-- 
>Rich Kulawiec	rsk@pur-ee.uucp rsk@purdue.uucp rsk@purdue-asc.arpa

Isn't this a catch-22? You have to have demonstrated volume to create a
newsgroup, but these groups should be deleted to "cut our volume by 25%".
Also, who decides what "redeeming value" is?  Do these groups have no
redeeming value just because some people express opinions in them which
don't agree with your own?

(And note: the original article went to net.flame and net.news.group.
It did _not_ go to net.religion, net.politics, or net.philosophy, which
seems somewhat unfair.)
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