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From: jsb@panix.UUCP (J. S. B'ach)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.groups
Subject: Re: let's quit propagating talk.bizarre
Keywords: cross-posting wars
Message-ID: <632@panix.UUCP>
Date: 11 Dec 89 01:20:54 GMT
References: <122@rayssd.ray.com>
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In article <122@rayssd.ray.com> gmp@quahog.ssd.ray.com (Greg Paris) writes:
)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.

I'd hardly call someone who posts an article without first checking where the
followups are directed, a victim.  And to remove talk.bizarre as a way to deal
with the behavior of a few persons seems to me to be punishing many who are not
involved.  Personally, if Carasso were to vanish from the net, I would consider
a great improvement, or at least, the greatest good for the greatest number.
But I deal with this personal prejudice by having him in my Kill file.  Now, I
read rec.pets, one of the 'victim' groups and I read talk.bizarre as well.
What did I do wrong that you should interfere with my ability to read talk.bizarre?
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