Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!sco!davidbe
From: davidbe@sco.COM (The Cat in the Hat)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: A SERIOUS DILEMMA FOR THE NET
Message-ID: <1128@scovert.sco.COM>
Date: 23 Sep 88 17:31:13 GMT
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ray@micomvax.UUCP (Ray Dunn) said:
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-Why do we continue to propagate the alt sub-net and support the excesses of
-these dregs of our USENET society?
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Because those administrators who support the alt sub-net wish to.  If a 
person doesn't like the content of a newsgroup, they are often invited
to unsubscribe.  The alt groups work in a similar manner on a news site
admin level.  If your site is recieving no benefit from the alt groups,
then there is no reason to recieve them.

Or, in simpler words...
The alt sub-net is propogated becuase people want it.  
And nobody is forcing them to do so.

I resent the phrase "dregs of our USENET society".  Indeed, your entire
article could be considered an inappropriate flame (posted to an inappropriate
newsgroup) of certain individuals that you do not like.  See alt.flame for
a flame of your entire article.

(Follow-ups not redirected, because Ray's question is appropriate for this
newsgroup.  My flame of this article will never be seen here, because it is
not (as) appropriate. )

-- 
"They used to say that pot leads to heroin.  Now we know it just leads to TV."