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From: tim@cmu-cs-k.ARPA (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: Vote Fraud and Newsgroups
Message-ID: <517@cmu-cs-k.ARPA>
Date: Tue, 3-Sep-85 13:40:59 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep  3 13:40:59 1985
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A few weeks ago, I suggested that the current mindless flaming discussions
in net.news.group be abandoned as a means of selecting new news groups.
Instead, all new groups should begin as mailing lists; if they have high
membership and high volume, they could be "promoted".  (Of course, some
mailing lists, like the one I run for minority religions, should always be
mailing lists and not become public newsgroups.)

This suggestion was apparently too sensible; people would rather stick with
a system that lets them speculate on fraud and call people idiots for being
interested in some subject.  Or perhaps it was too bone-headed to be worth
comment.  In either case, I would appreciate people stopping for a moment in
the frenzied course of ripping through the news, forgetting that they hate
me, considering the merits and deficiencies of this idea, and posting a few
words on the subject.  Thank you.
-=-
Tim Maroney, Carnegie-Mellon University, Networking
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