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From: gmp@rayssd.ray.com (Gregory M. Paris)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.groups
Subject: let's quit propagating talk.bizarre
Keywords: cross-posting wars
Message-ID: <122@rayssd.ray.com>
Date: 6 Dec 89 13:27:53 GMT
Reply-To: gmp@quahog.ssd.ray.com (Greg Paris)
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Some of you may be aware that a few easily amused people think it's funny to
start up cross-posting wars between talk.bizarre and other groups.  A typical
beginning of these wars is that somebody posts an outrageous article to
talk.bizarre and cross-posts it to the victim group.  Naive readers of the
victim group follow up to the article and the war begins.

Two such articles have recently arrived here, showing up in rec.arts.startrek.
One was posted by Richard Sexton, the other was posted by E.E. Carasso.  Sexton
has tried this same trick several times in the past and a few times he's been
successful in starting a protracted war between the groups.

Personally, I'd have no problem with the existence of talk.bizarre if it
wasn't for this type of blatantly offensive behavior on the part of some
talk.bizarre posters.  If they'd just keep to themselves, everybody would
be happy.  Unfortunately, this is not the case.

My proposal is this: let's quit propagating talk.bizarre.  Leave the group
intact, but don't forward it to your neighbors.  This action can be thought
of as a penalty for poor net-citizenship.  If you think that the actions of
talk.bizarre posters are out of line, please quit propagating the group.

Thanks!

-- 
Greg Paris <gmp@quahog.ssd.ray.com>
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