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From: bunda@cs.utexas.edu (John Bunda)
Newsgroups: rec.skydiving
Subject: Re: Fidonet noise
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Date: 12 Dec 90 02:30:19 GMT
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In article <1990Dec10.235548.6968@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> matt@mitek.com writes:

>Perhaps what would
>be better would be to let the Fido people know what accepted "standards"
>are in Internet news groups.

Well, except that it seems unfair to impose USENET standards on Fido.
A different ethic exists on that net, and who are we to dictate to
them, just because someone built a bridge?  Reminds me of people
who build houses next to the airport, then complain about the noise.

Plus, since new people are turning up all the time, the only way to
get the "rules" known is a periodic posting of fascist-sounding notice,
like they seem to have to do in many usenet groups already.  Seems
like overkill, even if you could defend it as appropriate.

In any event, I do think that automatically feeding *everything* from Fido 
didn't turn out to be such a hot idea after all.  






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