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From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: Re: freedom and group psychology
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Date: Thu, 26-Sep-85 21:15:07 EDT
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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. .... [ROSEN]
 
> 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. [DANA RICHARDS]

I wasn't aware that Doug had a gun with that sort of range and accuracy to
"make" you do anything.  Jeff Winslow took a survey of articles coming in,
and found that it reached the point at which complaints about Doug outnumbered
articles from Doug.  I'm not sure what's truly bizarre about that arithmetic.

> 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.)

The bizarreness seems to be in the self-contradictory nature of this paragraph,
He's normal, but he has no sense, but ...  How long must this go on?
-- 
Popular consensus says that reality is based on popular consensus.
						Rich Rosen   pyuxd!rlr


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