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From: hrh@well.UUCP (Harry Henderson)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: "Abuses" of the net
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Date: Thu, 18-Dec-86 07:07:48 EST
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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.