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From: richl@daemon.UUCP (Rick Lindsley)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: monopolizing net.singles
Message-ID: <1008@daemon.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 4-Aug-85 05:56:51 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug  4 05:56:51 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 6-Aug-85 08:38:42 EDT
References: <873@vax2.fluke.UUCP>
Reply-To: richl@daemon.UUCP (Rick Lindsley)
Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR
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Summary: 

In article <873@vax2.fluke.UUCP> cassidy@fluke.UUCP (Rion Cassidy) writes:
>
>Is Chris Andersen the moderator? Does he think he's the only contributor?
>

Sounds a bit harsh to me. Did you have a bad day at work today?

The fact that one person is provoking a lot of discussion is not a new
occurrence in this group.  The fact that some people agree with him and
some disagree is not a new occurrence in this group.  Even the fact
that one person is finding the time to write a lot of articles is not a
new occurrence in this group.  I think, as Chris mentions in a followup
article, that this should have been taken up via e-mail.

>
>Am I out of line? Am I being unreasonable in asking someone to not respond to
>every other article that gets posted?  If we don't use a little discretion,
>they'll start moderating this newsgroup and no one will be able to post
>anything freely.

Yes, yes, and "they" have already tried. If it really bothers you, and
you are using rn, put the line "/chris andersen/hk" in your net.singles
KILL file and hey presto! Chris's postings magically disappear. I already
do that to some specific authors in some newsgroups for various reasons.
If you don't use rn, I guess you'll either have to wear out that 'n' key
or unsubscribe to the group.

Although I've often wondered HOW Chris can post so many articles, I've
never questioned whether he should. Unlike some authors' postings,
Chris's postings are rarely inflammatory in nature. (Some of you
veterans out there may remember Frank Adrian? The man that made
Tektronix famous?) Yeah , I 'n' past them sometimes, but because the
topic doesn't interest me, not because Chris wrote them.

If you want to send a complaint to 'azure!usenet' you're welcome to,
but guess what? It's an alias that comes to someone in our support group.

Rick Lindsley
Small Systems Support

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