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From: boris@tornado.Berkeley.EDU (Boris Chen)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: inappropriate postings
Keywords: flames indoor
Message-ID: <1990Aug31.020603.21151@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: 31 Aug 90 02:06:03 GMT
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In article <49314@olivea.atc.olivetti.com> mjm@oliven.olivetti.com (Michael Mammoser) writes:
>In article <1990Aug28.045702.21315@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, richman@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Michael Richman) writes:
>> 
>> Nice diatribe, Mike.  Most readers are a tad more tolerant
>> though.  If you have rn or nn, hit the ^K key and enter the
>> following two lines:
>> 
>> 
>> /: *INDOOR/:j
>> /: *indoor/:j
>> 
>> Most all indoor posters were using this  convention.   Your  kill
>> file  will  then skip over all indoor postings which use the term
>> indoor.  This will be performed automatically and you won't  have
>> to  even  hit  your  "n" key.  As for guidelines, most all groups
>> have tolerated some changes in  their  original  intent.   So  it
>> goes.   Remember,  this is USENET and the dictionary defines that
>> as anarchy (:-).
>
>	Nice smokescreen, Mike. Of course, this brings up the obvious
>question: wouldn't a convention of this type work equally well in
>rec.pets, the appropriate place?

In pets there are several other "groups." There are the dog people
the rat people, the hamster people, the rock people, etc. Here
it is only INDOOR or OUTDOOR. Very simple. Not difficult. Easy.


>	They tell us that the invasion of newsgroups by inappropriate
>posters has happened before on the net, firmly entrenching the
>justification for their actions in the philosophy of: "two wrongs
>do, indeed, make a right". They remind us that anarchy is the norm
>on netnews. Yet when we try to display a little anarchy of our own,
>we are soundly criticized, proving the axiom that "what is good for
>the goose, should never be practiced by the gander". I can't recall
>ever seeing a larger load of hypocritical bullshit in my life.
>

What is appropriate is a evolutionary thing. Dynamic, not static.


>	As for my diatribe, Mike, consider this: if the "captive
>bird" people went back to rec.pets, the appropriate place, these
>diatribes would probably disappear. As if by magic. Besides, the
>volume of traffic is so low in this group; what's a diatribe or
>two among friends? And, in the words of the "captive bird" people,
>"it shouldn't be much of a bother to just hit the "N" key".

Good. So you finally agree that hitting the 'N' key is no bother.
So I guess pet bird people are now welcome.

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