Xref: utzoo news.admin:7944 news.groups:15578 Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!usc!ucsd!hub!6600pete From: 6600pete@hub.UUCP Newsgroups: news.admin,news.groups Subject: Re: Idiots! Re-propogate talk.bizarre! Message-ID: <3295@hub.UUCP> Date: 12 Dec 89 19:45:12 GMT References: <1922@odin.SGI.COM> Sender: news@hub.UUCP Lines: 53 Gads. My first true flame-war. What excitement! (yawn...) Just for the record, I don't read news.admin, and this is the last article I will cross-post there. From article <1922@odin.SGI.COM>, by cj@modernlvr.sgi.com (C J Silverio): > In article <3290@hub.UUCP> 6600pete@hub.UUCP writes: > |Re-propogate talk.bizarre RIGHT NOW! Lock it out of visibility on your system > |if you must, but DO NOT refuse to propogate it or THEY will catch on and > |rain their crap down on the legitimate groups! > I, for one, resent this comment. My postings are > "crap"? Have you even READ them? I thought not. I read talk.bizarre for about a month before unsubscribing it in frustration. It was entertaining for a while, but the record was broken. I thought the fact that I lasted a month was brave. > And as for "legitimate" , I just HAVE to ask you what on earth you > think USENET is for. Can you say "recreation"? SURE you can. Now tell us > what "legitimate" means in that context. OK, "legitimate" was the wrong word. "Desirable" was the right one. I'm afraid recreation isn't on MY top ten list. I gave up on extrovertive relativism a long time ago. If democracy can ever work, it's through rational self-interest. In this case, it indicates I ought to encourage people to continue propogating talk.bizarre even if they don't make it available to their users so that I personally don't have to deal with crazies on the net. > |I can't believe anybody would be stupid enough to follow the brainless > |suggestion that bizarre-ites be goaded like this. They spill over enough > |already! > Support that "spill over" assertion with fact. I suggest you start with > the crossposting ratios posted in news.lists. Call me back when you've read > them. ANY % is too much. Sure, I can skip over headers I don't like, but too often I am tricked into starting to read some snuggles crap. Besides, it often costs money to cross-post. > WHEN will people learn that the net needs good neighbors? > If you don't want it [sci.aquaria, talk.bizarre] available > on your system, FINE. But feed it downstream like a > cooperative dude, huh? I agree 100%. You read the original post, and you agreed with my statement that was roughly equivalent (I fail to quote it here) except in motive, of course. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pete Gontier | InterNet: 6600pete@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu, BitNet: 6600pete@ucsbuxa Editor, Macker | Online Macintosh Programming Journal; mail for subscription Hire this kid | Mac, DOS, C, Pascal, asm, excellent communication skills