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From: jay@splut.conmicro.com (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions,news.groups
Subject: Re: Do *YOU* want to be able to ask questions here? Some say NO.
Summary: some admins forget that they, too, had "trivial" questions once.
Keywords: Net Anarchy in the hands of the elite
Message-ID: <2804@splut.conmicro.com>
Date: 3 Aug 89 12:38:53 GMT
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Reply-To: jay@splut.conmicro.com (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard)
Followup-To: news.groups
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Organization: Confederate Microsystems, League City, TX
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The postings in ba.news.groups and ca.news.groups about how some admins
want to nuke news.newusers.questions disgust me.

They complain about "trivial" questions, forgetting completely that
these questions are not trivial to the users who ask them, and that
they, too, had questions that would seem trivial now once upon a
time...kind of like a parent who forgets that they, too, were once 14
years old.

To top it all off, they don't even take their objection to the whole net
via news.groups (where I've redirected this discussion), but rather keep
it among themselves.

I have complained about newsgroups that have passed by overwhelming
margins before, but have not nuked them on my site. The basis for the
regular net is that siteadmins (who, admittedly, have the right to
control what goes on on their machine) honor the results of net votes on
the premise of fairness: they expect others who dislike votes they
support to propagate their favorite groups. The regular net has worked
pretty well on that basis.

I hope that these arrogant siteadmins (who must not care about new
users) reconsider their unilateral decision to nuke a legitimate group;
failing that, I hope that other California systems take up the slack in
propagation.

-- 
Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL   | Never ascribe to malice that which can
uucp:        uunet!nuchat!   (eieio)| adequately be explained by stupidity.
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internet: jay@splut.conmicro.com    | "He's T*d, Jim."-Richard "Bones" Sexton