Xref: utzoo news.groups:15660 alt.flame:13422 Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!henry.jpl.nasa.gov!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!peregrine!ccicpg!dave From: dave@ccicpg.UUCP ( Dave Hill) Newsgroups: news.groups,alt.flame Subject: Re: Idiots! Re-propogate talk.bizarre! Summary: oh ? Message-ID: <51171@ccicpg.UUCP> Date: 14 Dec 89 20:39:42 GMT References: <1922@odin.SGI.COM> <3295@hub.UUCP> Followup-To: misc.test Organization: ccicpg Lines: 51 In article <3295@hub.UUCP>, 6600pete@hub.UUCP writes: > > 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. Sorry to hear that you couldn't cut it. Wimp. > OK, "legitimate" was the wrong word. "Desirable" was the right one. Okay Mx. Net.I.Know.What's.Good.For.You. Let's have your list of "desirable" groups. > 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. Please, get that list out here right now. We feed about 20 sites, I just gotta know what groups to kill. Geez, we've got a coupla hundred people right here in this building reading right now. This is worse than I thought... Ye Gods! They could be >shudder< enjoying themselves. They could be reading things that Mx. Net.I.Know.What's.Good.For.You doesn't find "desirable". IYEEEE!!!! Imminent Death Of Usenet Predicted! > 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. Hey, if it's gonna inconvenience YOU we'd just better shut the whole damn thing down RIGHT NOW. We wouldn't want you to waste any more of YOUR valuable time. Get that list out NOW! Then maybe YOU won't have to "deal with the crazies on the net". Dave