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From: ins_akaa@jhunix.UUCP (Kenneth Adam Arromdee)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: Delete net.flame?
Message-ID: <1195@jhunix.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 14-Nov-85 14:50:49 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 14 14:50:49 1985
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Reply-To: ins_akaa@jhunix.ARPA (Kenneth Adam Arromdee)
Organization: Johns Hopkins Univ. Computing Ctr.
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>I haven't seen any notes from people complaining that net.news.group wasn't
>available at their site; I have seen notes from people who said they
>*weren't allowed* to read it on their site. This strikes me as an
>unreasonable attitude on the part of their SAs, and one they should try to
>change.
>I see it this way: if no one who is interested enough in all the changes
>taking place on the net these days (where interested means interested enough
>to read net.news and/or net.news.group) thought it worthwhile to drum up
>support to save net.bizarre, then it must be that all the people who wanted
>net.bizarre to stay around don't really care about the net and are willing
>to let others decide what the direction of the net should be. Now that
>that's been done, they complain that someone else decided for them.
>						Wombat

At the time net.bizarre died, I wasn't allowed to read either net.news or
net.news.group. It was not at all a question of being interested. OF
COURSE it was an unreasonable attitude, but one that I had little ability
to change, whether or not I was interested. Furthermore, the discussion
about deleting net.bizarre was NOT posted to net.bizarre, so many people
who wanted to keep net.bizarre didn't find out until it was too late.
If they had known it was happening, they would have cared, but NOBODY
TOLD THEM. 

By the way, there is currently a bizarre mailing list. Presumably some
net.bizarre supporters DO consider it worthwhile to support the 
existence of net.bizarre in at least some form.
-- 
If you know the alphabet up to 'k', you can teach it up to 'k'.

Kenneth Arromdee
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