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From: fair@styx.UUCP (Erik E. Fair)
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Subject: Re: Yet another view on the death of the "soapbox groups"
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Date: Tue, 3-Jun-86 04:41:28 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun  3 04:41:28 1986
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I don't know about you, Mr. Grantges, but I fix the problems that are
within my powers to fix.

I can do nothing about the increasing tide of mediocrity in the
so-called `technical' groups except exhort those responsible to employ
their gray matter with more frequency. (and perhaps retire to
intelligently moderated newsgroups).

I can do nothing about the legions of pinheaded system administrators
who have neither the time to educate their users, nor the time to run
current software, but do have the time to flame at other people for
suggesting that they update their ancient software or educate that
particularly annoying user at their site.

I can and will assist the backbone in any way that I deem reasonable
to lower their costs and system loads, and increase the reliability
and speed of the network through the nodes where I either administrate
or have influence.

For the record, on the systems where I can do something, the
establishment of a list of talk.* groups will be nothing more than a
rename; the users that I serve clearly think the listed groups are
worth reading, and therefore I will continue to pass those groups
around under whatever names the network community decides.

	Erik E. Fair	ucbvax!fair	fair@ucbarpa.berkeley.edu
			styx!fair	fair@lll-tis-b.arpa