Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!sdcsvax!sdccsu3!ee163cz From: ee163cz@sdccsu3.UUCP Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Whither net.flame? [META-FLAME] Message-ID: <726@sdccsu3.UUCP> Date: Mon, 6-Jun-83 10:12:37 EDT Article-I.D.: sdccsu3.726 Posted: Mon Jun 6 10:12:37 1983 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Jun-83 22:28:56 EDT Lines: 31 WHAT IS HAPPENING TO THIS NEWSGROUP??????? For the last few days, this group has been cluttered up with a DISCUSSION of discrimination! Come on, you guys--this is net.FLAME, not net.discussion! Most of those articles have no business here! I sort of had the idea there was a net.social for *discussions* of social issues--I *know* there's a net.politics, in case you think Affirmative Action is a political issue! The appearance of discussions here may lead some readers to think that this is net.teatime or something. Indeed, a few weeks ago someone thought is necessary to APOLOGIZE for having posted a flame here! It was a perfectly good flame, too! There are even people out there who read this group expecting to see reasonable articles, and get upset when they see one which is totally unreasonable--i. e., a flame! There are plenty of other newsgroups for rational discussion and reasoned commentary. Let's keep this one safe for IRrationality! Oh, yeah: there are some readers out there who want to destroy this group! Every time I complain about something, at least two readers mail me helpful hints, trying to solve my problem! If they solve all my problems, I won't have anything to flame about! Now, just watch. The people I just mentioned will miss the whole point of this meta-flame, think I think I'm being reasonable, and take it personally. Serves them right, too. We don't need do-gooders here! Not afraid to sine my UID, sin(6072) = .643146