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From: dsr@uvacs.UUCP (Dana S. Richards)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: Re: freedom and group psychology
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Date: Mon, 23-Sep-85 10:48:42 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 23 10:48:42 1985
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> 
> I don't see how it can be construed as anything BUT intolerant.  First,
> Doug formed the mailing list/group only because of the tonguelashings and
> verbal abuse he got in droves from those who simply didn't like what he
> had to say.  Second, let's do some arithmetic.  If there are 100 articles
> and 90 of them are about Kate Bush, what does that mean?  It means among
> all the people who couldn't stand KB-isms, they could only amass tenarticles
> among them on other topics.  Later, the ratios changed:  of, say, 100
> articles, 50 may have from Doug and others about Bush, 40 were flames ABOUT
> Doug and/or Bush, and 10 were on the other topics. ....
 
This is truly bizarre arithmetic.   
To me the obvious conclusion is that most everyone thinks that the 10% of
non-Doug is the correct amount and mix of topics for this newsgroup.
Many people, myself included, do not have time to even "n" all the Doug
articles.  It is not right that one person should make me unsubscribe
from a group I enjoy.
I believe that Doug in real life is normal.  However he has no notion
of how screen after screen of his affects regular subscribers.
(This is not addressed to him;  I long ago realized he had no sense
of what he was doing even after his face rubbed in it.)


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