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From: lmb@vsi1.UUCP (Larry Blair)
Newsgroups: news.misc,alt.flame
Subject: Re: CTS garbage (was: A serious dilemma for the net)
Message-ID: <1018@vsi1.UUCP>
Date: 20 Sep 88 17:52:19 GMT
References: <7106@gryphon.CTS.COM> <1014@vsi1.UUCP> <271@sulaco.UUCP>
Reply-To: lmb@vsi1.UUCP (Larry Blair)
Organization: VICOM Systems Inc., San Jose, CA
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In article <271@sulaco.UUCP> allen@sulaco.UUCP (Allen Gwinn) writes:
>At least on gryphon, everyone uses their own name (just like you do).  They
>don't hide behind pseudos the way the Portalets do.  As for the comment
>about "more trash" coming out of gryphon than Portalet, you obviously 
>haven't been keeping up with current events... either that or they 
>better delay the launch of the space shuttle again until someone double
>checks your work :-)

First: I'd like to thank the kind people at CTS for flooding my mailbox with
replies of practically zero content.  I do apologize for not flaming the
Texas cabal, apparently the originators of this trash.

Second: Sorry Allen, I don't work at ames.  They just happen to be the
backbone and internet site we talk to, so I show them in my signature.

Third: From the last Top 25 by site:

         No. of      % of
Rank Articles Kbytes Total  Site
   3   437     430.6  1.1%  cup.PORTAL.COM (Portal Communications Company)
			      5% alt.flame 
  11   229     248.7  0.6%  gryphon.CTS.COM (Crash TimeSharing)
			      20% alt.flame 14% talk.bizarre 13% soc.singles 
			      7% alt.aquaria 

While Portal posts more, CTS's garbage content appears to be higher.  In
addition, from the Top 25 by user:

         No. of       % of
Rank Articles KBytes Total   User
  14   108     108.2  0.3%   richard@gryphon.CTS.COM  (Richard Sexton)
			       31% talk.bizarre 20% alt.flame 16% alt.aquaria
			       7% alt.config
  19    85      88.5  0.2%   oleg@gryphon.CTS.COM  (Oleg Kiselev)
			       26% alt.flame 22% soc.singles 12% talk.abortion
			       12% talk.politics.soviet 9% alt.sex 6% talk.politics.misc

196.7 out of CTS's 248.7 total from these two alone.  And _all_ to trash
groups.  Portal doesn't have anyone in the top 25.

I've seen a lot of very informative postings from Portal in comp groups.
Since I don't read the trash groups, I don't know (or care) what they post
there.  It does bother me when alt.flame slops into the news.all groups, and
the biggest offenders here are Richard, Oleg, and several Texas posters.  In
defense of the Texas posters, I have seen useful information from them.  The
useful information from Portal, too, pays its way on the net as far as I'm
concerned.
-- 
Larry Blair   ames!vsi1!lmb   lmb%vsi1@ames.arc.nasa.gov