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From: grr@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Is the net falling apart? 8-)
Message-ID: <228@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 11-May-86 22:25:53 EDT
Article-I.D.: cbmvax.228
Posted: Sun May 11 22:25:53 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 14-May-86 07:51:26 EDT
References: <13729@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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Summary: no, just a defensive response

In article <13729@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> weemba@brahms.UUCP (Matthew P. Wiener) writes:
>First there was Unknown@hplabs.  Now I see an occasional Unknown@decwrl
>or even just Unknown.  And articles appear two or three or four or even
>*five* times duplicated.  And the latest is ridiculous.  Two to two dozen
>week old articles show up all of a sudden in a newsgroup.  Yikes!
>
>ucbvax!brahms!weemba	Matthew P Wiener/UCB Math Dept/Berkeley CA 94720

No, this is just an organic netwide response of usenet against the resurgence
of the net.bizzaroids:

Step 1:	The net.software will echo all the bizzaroid artices back at theirs
	originators, probably in triplicate...

Step 2:	The net.hardware will wedge in local loopback mode, such that they
	will see only their own postings...

Step 3:	The net.terminals will revolt and selectivly disable their 'n' keys,
	perhaps substituting 'M'...

	.... and everyone else will live happily ever after ....


In a more serious vein, I wish those people at hplabs would quit experimenting
with new software on net time - my spool directory is laced with bogus articles
that they've neither canceled or apologized for.
-- 
George Robbins - now working with,	uucp: {ihnp4|seismo|caip}!cbmvax!grr
but no way officially representing	arpa: cbmvax!grr@seismo.css.GOV
Commodore, Engineering Department	fone: 215-431-9255 (only by moonlite)