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From: hhm@ihlpa.UUCP
Newsgroups: alt.flame
Subject: Re: Wienerology 101
Message-ID: <6068@ihlpa.ATT.COM>
Date: Wed, 28-Oct-87 14:11:26 EST
Article-I.D.: ihlpa.6068
Posted: Wed Oct 28 14:11:26 1987
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Summary: Listen up, for a second

In article <1684@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>, henry@garp.mit.edu (Henry Mensch) writes:
> In article <6033@ihlpa.ATT.COM>, hhm@ihlpa (Mayo) writes:
> >    My vote is that I and, I suspect, a few thousand previous subscribers
> >    to the old net.flame are sick and tired of seeing this group filled
> >    with a discussion that is being carried on by a small handfull of
> >    posters on a subject that most of the rest of the world doesn't give
> >    a damn about. 
> 
> Yo, Mayo!  Unwedge your head ... it seems to be stuck up your tuchus!
> Votes don't count here (this isn't a primary election), and nobody
> asked for your approval on the subject matter.  People didn't care
> about *anyone's* opinion of what topics should or shouldn't be
> discussed in net.flame.  If you don't like what's going on, provide
> something more interesting.  PUT UP OR SHUT UP, SPORT!
> (Naturally, our network audience realizes that there are thousands of
> us who don't give a flying fart about the discussions in other groups,
> either.  We don't go about telling them that we don't care and they
> should stop posting, though.)
> 
    Look at it like this, First, the poster said I should vote with my
    feet, but I just sort of voted otherwise.

    Second, I'm overjoyed to see a flame group back on the net. If
    it turns into a private gabfest for stuff that is of no general
    interest, then potential posters will quickly be turned off by
    the sample of postings they see, and never subscribe. Ergo,
    the plug gets pulled on this group again and the fun is over.
    I don't even mind getting my bum roasted over these postings.
    Besides, I don't think I was the only one who complained about
    these postings. 

                                                   Larry