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From: ag5@pucc-i (Henry C. Mensch)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: Open war on Obscenity...
Message-ID: <716@pucc-i>
Date: Wed, 24-Oct-84 12:06:11 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 24 12:06:11 1984
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<<But wait, if you order now, you'll get this free ginsu knife...>>

..>David Wade sez this:

..>And Gene don't you really think that people would object to your
..>cute little jokes, has anyone called your boss yet?  I'll bet
..>his phone number is in one of the site reports in net.news somewhere.
..>Lets start a round robin and see how many people we can get fired.

..>Just think where we'd be if we could get rid of reactionarys like
..>Gene.

	Yeah, just think about where *would* we be...  One less interesting
person to read on the net.  If we got rid of *all* the Chuquis and Genes
and Henrys on the net, this stuff would be boring as hell.  Probably would
be uninformative as well.  

	There is a *world* of difference between a cute quip at the bottom
of a posting and several Kbytes of "meaningless drivel."  Not only is 
the "meaningless drivel" slightly annoying (I start reading the crap and
then realize that I shouldn't be wasting my time . . .) but it is 
*costly* meaningless drivel.  Costly to |d|i|g|i|t|a|l|, costly to
pucc, costly to gatech, and costly to mcvax...  We're talking big-time
dollars over a period of time for someone to say absolutely nothing
intelligible.  

	If you can't take a cute quip, then perhaps you should push
off the net and do something a bit more low-key... (You could read
/dev/null -- nothing controversial there...)

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