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From: molenda@s1.msi.umn.edu (Jason Molenda)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer,news.admin
Subject: Re: FIDONET ate my newsgroup! (What's happening?!)
Message-ID: <1991Jan6.011320.3109@s1.msi.umn.edu>
Date: 6 Jan 91 01:13:20 GMT
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tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney) writes:

>I have to say that I have yet to see Fido gateways to USENET doing
>anything but hurting the quality of newsgroups, and I wonder if there
>should be a policy against such gateways.  If you think there's a lot
>of pointless blather on USENET, try a Fido echo sometime.

new usenet administrators do new and weird things to the net all the
time.  It usually isn't malicious and once they know of the problem
the problem ceases.  But we don't go around saying that new usenet
administrators shouldn't be allowed to join usenet.

People make mistakes.  No point in trying to lynch them or restrict
the software they're using just because of an occasional mistake from
a new sysadmin.

  -jason
-- 
Jason Molenda, Tech Support, Iris & News Admin, Minnesota Supercomputer Inst
molenda@s1.msi.umn.edu || molenda%msi.umn.edu@umnacvx.bitnet
"And remember: Evil will always prevail, because Good is dumb." -- Spaceballs