Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-crg!lll-lcc!well!hrh From: hrh@well.UUCP (Harry Henderson) Newsgroups: news.misc Subject: Re: "Abuses" of the net Message-ID: <2233@well.UUCP> Date: Thu, 18-Dec-86 07:07:48 EST Article-I.D.: well.2233 Posted: Thu Dec 18 07:07:48 1986 Date-Received: Thu, 18-Dec-86 23:02:56 EST References: <21062@styx.UUCP> <678@uwmacc.UUCP> Organization: Whole Earth Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA Lines: 13 Summary: Appropriateness does not conflict with freedom. The subject of "news.misc" as I understand it is "issues concerning the use of news that don't fit into a more specific context (such as software bugs, etc.). I could see someone quoting flames from talk.philosphy etc. as part of a discussion of what kind of writing is appropriate, although I'm sure you've noticed that flaming is contagious (flammable) such that discussions about flaming have a distressing habit of bursting into flames themselves. But why do the "philosophers" have to carry on their arguments here? Yes, they have the "freedom" to do so, but misusing a newsgroup simply makes life harder for everyone else who has to wade through inappropriate messages, not to mention pay for them. The result is counterproductive in that it's hard to give a fair hearing to the philosophical views of people who insist on scrawling them over every billboard in town.