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From: jcz@ncsu.UUCP (John Carl Zeigler)
Newsgroups: net.followup,net.flame
Subject: Re: This article ought not belong here.
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Date: Thu, 12-Apr-84 22:31:13 EST
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Oh my god! I am following up to net.general!!!

Look, you cannot 'guide' the USENET anymore than
you can guide Marde Gras.  At most you can plan
events, specify times and places, and hope the streets hold
up.   Wether or not things that happen on and to
USENET will cause 'self-destruction' is inmaterial.

uucp is out there, news versions A, A+, B2.x, and notesfiles
exist, modems exist, and AT&T (and friends) still plugs along.

There will not be any 'self-destruction' on the network.

It may change, even radically, as time goes by but never will
it disappear.  (It may disappear from YOUR site, but never altogether.)
It may also spilt into seperate networks; after a while the parts
may rejoin.

Don't be so picky, so finicky, about how things are going.

Just sit back and enjoy the free-for-all of ideas and opinions.

If you are really concerned about peoples' behaviour on the
network, open a 'miss manners' type of news group.

All you stuffed shirts could get togther and decide
how you want the rest of us to behave.  I will still
eat chicken with my fingers.

Frankly, all this talk of submit here, don't submit there,
write articles this way, that way, etc. smack of censorship.

Let people enjoy, explore, have fun with the network,
(in between compilations, of course).   The way some of you sound
makes me think you do nothing all day but read and reply to news.
Do you really have that big a need to be heard?  Do you really think
what you are saying is that important?  Go easy on yourselves,
and the rest of us, don't take the network so seriously.  Let
it go however it goes.  If something happens and you have to give up
your access, so?

In the end, (which I have come to at last) just remember
what a great toy this thing is, and dont get so uptight about
how other people play with it.


(sorry to be so long, but if you are worried about phone bills,
hang up the phone.  The net will go on with twenty new nodes
tomorrow.)


John Carl Zeigler
North Carolina State University
mcnc!ncsu!jcz