Xref: utzoo comp.org.eff.talk:1480 news.misc:6094 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!olivea!sun-barr!newstop!texsun!moxie!sugar!ficc!taronga!peter From: peter@taronga.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk,news.misc Subject: Re: The Moderator Who Doesn't Give A Shit Message-ID: Date: 14 Feb 91 11:46:46 GMT Organization: A corner of our bedroom Lines: 24 Thanks folks. Now we don't have any comp.dcom.telecom at all. What's the point of all this? Do you get the local paper's subscription list and send out a mass mailing because you don't like their editorial policy? Do you call in to radio stations and flame them because you disagree with Bruce Williams or Rush Limbaugh? Do you then proceed to jam their frequencies with opposing editorials? If anything, this is worse... because the moderator of a newsgroup has less power than any editor or columnist. There are plenty of open channels where you can rebut their points. But this flaming, these irrelevant ad-hominem attacks, is sheer foolishness. First it was Brad Templeton over rec.humor.funny. Then Rich Salz over comp.sources.unix. Now Pat Townson, who turns out to have thinner skin than the others. Is that such a sin? The least you could have done was offer to help: to moderate an alternative group, or co-moderate TELECOM. Eli did that, and seems conspicuously absent in this latest skirmish. -- (peter@taronga.uucp.ferranti.com) `-_-' 'U`