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From: davidbe@sco.COM (The Cat in the Hat)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.groups
Subject: Re: let's quit propagating talk.bizarre
Keywords: cross-posting wars
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Date: 8 Dec 89 00:53:15 GMT
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news.admin's own gmp@quahog.ssd.ray.com (Greg Paris) said:
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-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.

Actually I've seen the same thing done in a number of newsgroups, *including*
rec.arts.startrek.  And while "blatantly offensive" an inappropriately posted
article is no excuse to go over the deep end.  Many are the users not in
talk.bizarre who prolong a flame war by blithering endlessly, when instead
if they had *ignored* the article, there wouldn't have been any problem.

-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.  

Poor net-citizenship?  When we've got people complaining about the whole
sci.aquaria thing, when we've had 2 newsgroups created with one vote
(sci.groupware, sci.groupware.f), when we've had rmgroup wars on alt,
you're worried about a few inappropriately posted articles?  Wow.  That's
really petty.  I'm impressed.

Be a good net.citizen.  Read the appropriate groups, contribute to the 
discussion, and stay aware of the issues.  Contribute something *constructive*
to the discussions going on in the news.* groups.  


					I thank you, and the net thanks you.

-- 
     David Bedno, Systems Administrator, The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
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