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From: ecl@mtgzy.UUCP (e.c.leeper)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Yet another view on the death of the "soapbox groups"
Message-ID: <1815@mtgzy.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 4-Jun-86 11:42:03 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun  4 11:42:03 1986
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> let me observe that it seems a mite peculiar to me that you folks
> are out their about to "fix" the users misuse of the net by organizing
> the so-called "soapbox groups" out of existence, while the net
> itself appears to continue to deteriorate technically.  Why is it,
> for example, that the so-called line eater bug still seems to exist?
> Why is it that multiple transmissions of articles are occurring with
> increasing frequency?  Why is it that articles reflecting back to their
> point of origin seem to be occurring more and more frequently?

Read "F for Frankenstein" by Arthur C. Clarke or "A Subway Named Moebius"
by A. J. Deutsch for the *real* answer! :-)

					Evelyn C. Leeper
					...ihnp4!mtgzy!ecl
					(or ihnp4!mtgzz!ecl)

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies. --Honore de Balzac