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From: robert@weitek.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.news.group,net.news.adm
Subject: Re: In praise of net.biz--I mean net.{rumor,suicide}
Message-ID: <441@weitek.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 5-Jun-86 20:53:07 EDT
Article-I.D.: weitek.441
Posted: Thu Jun  5 20:53:07 1986
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References: <2341@seismo.CSS.GOV> <1001@k.cs.cmu.edu> <14076@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <345@andromeda.RUTGERS.EDU>
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Summary: Call for talk.complain-about-other-people's-postings
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In article <345@andromeda.RUTGERS.EDU>, marco@andromeda.RUTGERS.EDU (the wharf rat) writes:
[... a lot of quoted material. Deleted for brevity...]
>           On the assumption that .news.group will have missed the
> original, I have included most of it.

 
>            Would you feel the same way if people started posting
> multi-hundred-line flames and questionable jokes in net.math ?
> What would _your_ reaction be if the signal-to-noise in your
> favorite groups suddenly began to approach zero because some
> bizzaroid decided that it would be cute to hold cross-country
> flaming contests ? 
> [... and so on...]
>                                              W.rat

Has anyone estimated the percent of postings that are complaints
about what other people are posting?  It seems that every prig on the
net spends his time lowering the signal-to-noise level by blathering
on about the signal-to-noise ratio.  These self-important guardians
of the net don't seem to have any ethics about it, either. They'll
include long articles are part of their complaints about people who
include long articles, bitch about posting to inappropriate
newsgroups in inappropriate newsgroups (you shouldn't bitch about
postings in net.rumor unless your complaint is itself a rumor. Have
some respect!), and generally flap about and squawk a lot.

These stuffed shirts are the very bizarroids that they complain
about. Their sole function on the net seems to be reducing the S/N
ratio of people's favorite newsgroups by indulging in cross-country
flaming contests.

How about creating a talk.hypocrites or talk.prigs for these people?
-- 

	Robert Plamondon
	UUCP: {turtlevax, cae780}!weitek!robert