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From: cramer@kontron.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.misc,news.groups,rec.humor
Subject: Re: New newsgroup requested:  mod.flame
Message-ID: <1346@kontron.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 29-Jan-87 20:18:04 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 29 20:18:04 1987
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> In article <684@ihuxo.UUCP> hhm@ihuxo.UUCP (Mayo) writes:
> >> In article <639@briar.UUCP> rlw@briar.UUCP (Richard Wexelblat) writes:
> >> >I hereby propose and offer to moderate a new group:
> >> >
> >> >		*************
> >> >		* mod.flame *
> >> >		*************
> >> >
> >I wholeheartedly support this. There was no excuse for killing net.
> >flame, no matter what was said there.
> 
>   Yes, there was. It was expensive and was threatening to kill the entire net
> by forcing some sites that pay most of the phone bills (including, but not
> limited to, ours) to consider leaving the net altogether. That *one* group
> of dubious value accounted for over 20% of all net traffic (and expense).
> After it's demise, our phone bill immediately dropped by 15%.
> 
> >Maybe the bluenoses who killed
> >it in the first place would rather that people do physical violence
> >to each other rather than let off steam and get it off their chests.
> 
>   No, we'd rather that you mail your flames so that your site can share
> in the cost, instead of posting them to 100000+ readers, none of whom
> gives two shits what you think, and making it cost hundreds of times as much
> with zero extra benefit.
>   I can firmly state that there is no way our site is going to pay to carry
> a group where people are encouraged by its very name and charter to be juvenile
> and abusive. I'm sure at least some of the other backbone sites agree. If you
> --Greg

What?  You don't carry talk.politics.misc, talk.abortion, and soc.women?

Clayton E. Cramer