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From: greid@adobe.UUCP (Glenn Reid)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: proposed destruction of net.bizarre
Message-ID: <762@adobe.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 20-Oct-85 18:58:29 EDT
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Posted: Sun Oct 20 18:58:29 1985
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Reply-To: greid@adobe.UUCP (Glenn Reid)
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Keywords: The hell you say

Sort of an open letter to Gene Spafford:

You and your backbone site friends have every right to not FORWARD
net.bizarre, and you probably would be justified in doing so.  I read
net.bizarre, and have even been known to post to it, but it is true
that the group is filled with drivel and nonsense.

However, the net is an anarchy, as you have pointed out, and although
you have the right to not forward any given newsgroup, you do not have
the right to arbitrarily send out an RMGROUP on it.  Save your own
phone bills--I realize the burden placed on the "backbone" sites, and
evereyone appreciates the mail forwarding and netnews forwarding that
is done by such sites--but there is no need or sense in deliberately
trying to destroy it for everybody else.

YOU HAVE NO MORE RIGHT TO DESTROY A NEWSGROUP WITHOUT POLLING PEOPLE
THAN I DO TO CREATE ONE WITHOUT ASKING YOU.

There.  Flaming runs in the family, but nothing personal, you under-
stand.  I don't belive in the wasting of resources for nerds to post
the value of pi, but fair is fair.  And if a backbone site is not
prepared to be fair across the board, then it shouldn't be a backbone
site.

Glenn Reid {backbone | backbone | decwrl | glacier}!adobe!greid

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