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From: charlie@mica.stat.washington.edu (Charlie Geyer)
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Subject: Re: Idiots! Re-propogate talk.bizarre! (Re: let's quit...)
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Date: 12 Dec 89 20:19:48 GMT
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In article <7313@pt.cs.cmu.edu> mjc@nl.cs.cmu.edu (Monica Cellio) writes:

> Can we please discuss the group on its own merits, or lack thereof, rather
> than attempting to blackmail the net as a whole?  That's not likely to go
> over well; many sysadmins would probably leave the group alone, except that
> the proponents of the group are now threatening to make the rest of the net
> a miserable place to be.

That's not quite what's being said.  It's not proponents of
talk.bizarre that have been posting on this.  No regular talk.bizarre
poster has made any threats at all.  Some old experienced hands (not
me) have just made the observation that for a variety of reasons
trying to stop propagation of talk.bizarre is real dumb.  Is that o. k.?