Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!sunybcs!kitty!larry From: larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman) Newsgroups: news.misc Subject: Re: Portal flames back! Summary: A second opinion... Message-ID: <2700@kitty.UUCP> Date: 20 Sep 88 02:12:47 GMT References: <9027@cup.portal.com> <6934@gryphon.CTS.COM> <9150@cup.portal.com> <3686@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> Sender: nobody@cs.Buffalo.EDU Organization: Recognition Research Corp., Clarence, NY Lines: 22 In article <3686@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>, greg@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Gregory Nowak) writes: > > In article <9152@cup.portal.com> john_f_tamburo@cup.portal.com writes: > > Criticism? This entire newsgroup is a fucking LYNCH MOB > >when Portal is involved! You wan't war, buddy, YOU CAN HAVE IT! > >How about a nice posting in our internal events section, asking > >EVERYBODY ON PORTAL to flame you! Ready for 15,000 flames? > > And here the threat is made explicit. Something clearly needs to be > done aobut Portal. My own opinion is that Portal is packaging Usenet > as a commercial product, and in some sense violating the > anti-commercialism rule, but that's just one opinion. It is also my opinion. If it were within my power, I would simply deny the Portal site a Usenet feed. If one believes Portal's advertising hype, their "internal" bulletin boards far exceed Usenet in size; if this is true, then Portal users would miss little if denied Usenet access. <> Larry Lippman @ Recognition Research Corp., Clarence, New York <> UUCP: {allegra|ames|boulder|decvax|rutgers|watmath}!sunybcs!kitty!larry <> VOICE: 716/688-1231 {att|hplabs|mtune|utzoo|uunet}!/ <> FAX: 716/741-9635 {G1,G2,G3 modes} "Have you hugged your cat today?"