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From: tneff@bfmny0.UUCP (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: In Moderation
Message-ID: <14465@bfmny0.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jul 89 01:58:30 GMT
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Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.UUCP (Tom Neff)
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The problem with a pay service that "throws out the trash" from Usenet
is that it violates the spirit of the Net.  The implied assumption that
the Net is mostly trash is anathema.  The idea here is supposed to be
that we RESPECT our net.neighbors as colleagues and equals and, if we're
not always interested in what they have to say, the lack of interest is
oriented more along topic lines than personal or critical lines.  That
is, I don't give a flying @(*$@($ about comp.sys.atari, but anyone who
posts something in comp.unix.i386 or sci.space or alt.sources will have
my ear for as long as he or she takes to tell me whether I want to keep
reading.  I kill a third of the articles in my feed without hesitation,
but what cowardice it would take to insist some third party do this for
me!  Even if they could do it *right*, which I view with deepest
suspicion.

I renew my challenge / slash / question re: In Moderation.  WHAT WOULD
YOU THROW OUT, and WHAT WOULD YOU KEEP.  I can see no harm in a
representative "culling" from recent postings.  Five examples of each
type would suffice.  If they can't show us that then they don't trust us
as potential customers.
-- 
"My God, Thiokol, when do you     \\	Tom Neff
want me to launch -- next April?"  \\	uunet!bfmny0!tneff