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From: jc@minya.UUCP (John Chambers)
Newsgroups: news.admin,talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: Can something be done about 770K waste of time postings...
Message-ID: <584@minya.UUCP>
Date: 7 May 88 04:33:57 GMT
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In article <859@actnyc.UUCP>, jsb@actnyc.UUCP (The Invisible Man) writes:
> In article <392@pan.UUCP> jw@pan.UUCP (Jamie Watson) writes:
> 	[ much flaming deleted ]
> )I like your mentioning of talk.bizarre, though - perhaps we should get the
> )entire comp.binaries.* hierarchy aliased to talk.bizarre, which is not (thank
> )God) carried in Europe, so we wouldn't have to pay for future lunacy like this.

What are you folks talking about?  The articles in talk.bizarre are almost 
all mercifully short.  It's one of the cheapest newsgroups around.  It's
those folks that want to be taken seriously that waste our precious Mbytes.

> The crux of your argument (if it may be termed an argument, the Abuse department
> is down the hall to your right) seems to be that only those froups that you
> personally find useful should be allowed to exist.  Perhaps there should only
> be 1 froup titled net.Jamie (moderated by yourself? or perhaps by God, whom you
> feel certain agrees with you; or perhaps you feel you *are* God?)

Hey, I just typed in:
	su
	inews -C to.jc
and posted a couple of articles.  It worked fine.  Most sensible articles
I've read in a long time.  And, no, I WON'T put it in the sys file so it 
can get forwarded to you!  But I may let you have the rmgroup message, 
if you ask nice.  [;-]

-- 
John Chambers <{adelie,ima,maynard,mit-eddie}!minya!{jc,root}> (617/484-6393)

You can't make a turtle come out.
	-- Malvina Reynolds