Xref: utzoo news.admin:3574 news.misc:1831 Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!amdcad!ames!elroy!gryphon!oleg From: oleg@gryphon.CTS.COM (Oleg Kiselev) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.misc Subject: Re: Opinion on a "problem" Message-ID: <7364@gryphon.CTS.COM> Date: 28 Sep 88 16:35:20 GMT References: <1169@nmtsun.nmt.edu> <1292@micomvax.UUCP> Reply-To: oleg@gryphon.CTS.COM (Oleg Kiselev) Organization: HASA Lines: 31 caasnsr@nmtsun.nmt.edu (Clifford Adams) writes: >>A form of racism has come to USENET. Sites leaving (like >>AT&T) will not kill the net. This form of racism (siteism?) might do so. Which is rather stupid, really. Being critical of the whole site, like PORTAL, may influence opinions of the posters on the site, but has not caused sites like GRYPHON to stop propagating PORTAL articles down stream to sites we feed. Tha accusations of "racism" or "siteism", of all things, are nothing byt hysterical rantings. In article <1292@micomvax.UUCP> ray@micomvax.UUCP (Ray Dunn) writes: >And thus puts forward an interesting hypothesis. > richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) writes: > >Whats stupider that yer average Portal (not legally TM, it turns out) > >user ? >And thus proves it. Proves WHAT? That Sexton has a very low opinion of "yer average Portal poster"? That we all knew and expected. What else? That this low opinion will prevent GRYPHON from feeding PORTAL postings to other sites? That somehow, by magic, a user "richard@GRYPHON" will cause PORTAL to fall off the NET? Ray Dunn has been engaged in GRYPHON-bashing for quite a while now. What does that prove? -- Oleg Kiselev "No regrets, no apologies" -- Ronald Reagan (213)337-5230 ARPA: lcc.oleg@seas.ucla.edu, oleg@gryphon.cts.com UUCP:...!ucla-cs!lcc!oleg Copyright 1988 by Oleg Kiselev. All rights reserved. Quoting is allowed only if attributed.