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From: evan@pedsgo.UUCP (Evan Marcus)
Newsgroups: net.tv
Subject: Re: Meta-reports from Moonlighting
Message-ID: <157@pedsgo.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 3-Feb-86 09:22:21 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb  3 09:22:21 1986
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In article <4040008@csd2.UUCP> krantz@csd2.UUCP (Michaelntz) writes:
>
>
>Hey Evan!
>
>You are one irritating guy.  It's bad enough that you added
>to the "Stop doing this, America" rants on net.jokes with
>your "Thou Shalt Not Post Moonlighting Meta-Comments"
>proclamation, but now I get on net.TV???!!!??? and you 
>find it appropriate to post the same comment HERE?!?!  On
>net.tv, we shouldn't discuss metahumor, which many of us
>are fascinated by, about one of the best new tv programs
>of the year?  F*CK TH*T SH*T, MAN!!!!  Bug off!

I didn't say it with the tone that Mr. Krantz is awarding me.  I asked in
what I thought was a nice tone, simply that there are lots of us who see
Moonlighting every week (and also read BC and Bloom County), and do not
care to see reports of dialog posted on the net the following morning.
I thoroughly enjoy the show, tho I must admit that I am beginning to tire
slightly of the meta-comments, mostly because I see them here again.  

As for using my 'n' key, I do (often, and I use the 'c' key even more!),
but the comment line is usually a poor indication of what the article
contains.
>
>I am increasingly infuriated by arrogant net.users who
>seem to feel they have some right to impose their will
>on everyone else.  Who cares if Evan Marcus doesn't like
>reading metahumor on Moonlighting?  Why on Earth he can't
>just skip the posting is beyond me.  Really.  This is
>ridiculous.
>
>- michael Krantz
>

It's not just a matter of my ability or inability to skip a posting.  It's
more that this (large) set of comments contributes greatly to the S/N
ratio.   And seeing the same posting with the same comment multiple times
is a great waste of money.  When the meta-comment discussion started, I
thought it was a great idea, but as with many of the net's great ideas, it
has soured.  I thought we were looking backwards for meta-humor, not
forwards.  The example provided today from a Crosby/Hope Road movie was a
good one.  We need more of THOSE!

I mean, net.tv is (believe it or not) first in my .newsrc, and
Moonlighting has a lot to do with that.  I like to hear other peoples'
opinions on it and other shows (like HSB or Cosby) a lot.  But, if I want
to hear examples of dialog, I will tune in.  

For those of you who miss the show and are unable to catch these
(definitely) clever snippets of dialog, I'm sorry.  Would you like us to
post the entire show?  Now THAT would be a good use of net.resources,
wouldn't it?

I am really surprised at some of the rather inflammatory comments that this
(seemingly) innocent posting has generated.  
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