Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site phri.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcs!mnetor!lsuc!pesnta!phri!roy From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) Newsgroups: net.news.group Subject: Re: New (?) Newsgroup Request - net.bizarre Message-ID: <527@phri.UUCP> Date: Wed, 23-Oct-85 11:29:41 EDT Article-I.D.: phri.527 Posted: Wed Oct 23 11:29:41 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 24-Oct-85 12:19:07 EDT References: <615@k.cs.cmu.edu> Distribution: net Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY) Lines: 15 > I would like to suggest the creation of a new newsgroup -- net.bizarre. > UUCP: ..!seismo!k.cs.cmu.edu!mcb ARPA: mcb@k.cs.cmu.edu Quite aside from any arguments about whether the stuff posted to net.bizarre in the past was really bizarre or not, I am dead set against it returning. It encourages the idea that the net is a plaything, to be used as a source of entertainment with no regard for who pays the bills. This goes for net.jokes and net.flame as well. Entertainment and humor are good things, but we should not presume to think that our employers are willing to pay for it. -- Roy Smith System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016