Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!husc6!cmcl2!phri!roy From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) Newsgroups: news.groups,news.misc,news.stargate,news.sysadmin,news.admin Subject: Re: EndOfSourcesList+AnnouncementOfNetOmbudsman -- communication? Message-ID: <2767@phri.UUCP> Date: Thu, 2-Jul-87 01:16:12 EDT Article-I.D.: phri.2767 Posted: Thu Jul 2 01:16:12 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 4-Jul-87 04:10:22 EDT References: <266@brandx.rutgers.edu> <8225@utzoo.UUCP> <272@brandx.rutgers.edu> Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY) Lines: 24 Keywords: solving the moderation bottleneck Summary: Let's thank the bad guys for keeping the sherrif employed. Xref: mnetor news.groups:1143 news.misc:665 news.stargate:215 news.sysadmin:260 news.admin:590 In article <272@brandx.rutgers.edu> webber@brandx.rutgers.edu (Webber) writes: > This net would not exist without the efforts of a great number of > people -- including the posters who thanklessly supply the flow for > the networking people to experiment with managing. What an interesting idea; usenet is nothing but an experiment in teleconferencing (at least partially true) and we all owe a vote of thanks to those noble souls who provide us with research material! Let's try an analogy. Here at the Public Health Research Institute, we expend a significant fraction of our effort studying AIDS. Clearly, if AIDS didn't exist, some of our researchers would be out of a job. Come to think of it, since some of those researchers pay my salary, I might be out of a job too. So, it's in my best interest to make sure AIDS spreads as fast as possible. I think I'll send some unsafe-sex articles to sci.med.aids. Nah, the moderator probably wouldn't post them. But wait, I could always appeal to the net ombudsman to post them for me, couldn't I! As Eric Idle once said, "What a stupid concept!" -- Roy Smith, {allegra,cmcl2,philabs}!phri!roy System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016