Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: alt.config
Subject: Re: At last: alt.flame
Message-ID: <8616@utzoo.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 19-Sep-87 19:03:52 EDT
Article-I.D.: utzoo.8616
Posted: Sat Sep 19 19:03:52 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 19-Sep-87 19:03:52 EDT
References: <14297@amdahl.amdahl.com> <7366@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>, <14461@amdahl.amdahl.com>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
Lines: 12

> net.flame had a lot of history behind it and was ruefully missed
> when The Authorities removed it.  I honestly claim that it serves
> a useful purpose in network communications, for example by presenting
> hot (truly hot!) issues that the People which to rail about.

I would claim that it would be just as useful as a local group, never
transmitted over pay-per-minute long-haul links.  The alt newsgroups
are looking less like an alternative and more like the Same Old Shit
every day.  I've already started unsubscribing.
-- 
"There's a lot more to do in space   |  Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
than sending people to Mars." --Bova | {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,utai}!utzoo!henry