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From: greg@mind.UUCP (greg Nowak)
Newsgroups: news.admin,talk.bizarre
Subject: Another flame from greg
Message-ID: <1950@mind.UUCP>
Date: 27 Feb 88 01:56:03 GMT
References: <7080@uunet.UU.NET> <1918@mind.UUCP> <1156WGRCU@CUNYVM> <8272@eddie.MIT.EDU> <1435@looking.UUCP>
Reply-To: greg@mind.UUCP (greg Nowak)
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In article <1435@looking.UUCP> brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) writes:

}I have to say that Bill Rubin is right, and that what we have is a textbook
}case of a whiny talk.bizarre reader.  I read net.bizarre when it started
}for a while, and there were a few good things.  When I started
}rec.humor.funny, I read talk.bizarre for 2 months to see if I could cull
}anything funny, and I found only 1 item.  (I'll admit I'm tough)

The rec.humor.funny fascist speaks. Mr. Templeton, it may come as a
shock to you, but talk.bizarre does not exist as a "feeder" group for
your sainted rec.humor.funny. I find it rather quaint and 19th-century
that your idea of humor contains only constructs presented in the
format of "jokes",, linear assemblages of "yuks". Rec.humor.funny is a
faceless billboard; rec.humor sn't much better. Talk.bizarre is a
*community*, for better or worse, and we all *know* each other -- and
only paranoid types such as yourself find something reprehensible in
that. It's damn unfortunate that you don't have the sophistication to
appreciate humor that's not in the predigested form of "jokes"; for
your sake I'll spare you a debate about whether "bizarre" and "funny"
even should mean the same things.

}All this would be fine if it weren't for this stuff that's going
}on there right now about "pumping up the volume" and trying to get the
}highest volume on the net.  

Clearly you're not a talk.bizarre reader. If you were, you'd know that
VOLUME VOLUME VOLUME has been a CONTINUAL quest of this newsgroup. We
are a CULTURE, damnit, we have our traditions, we demand our RIGHTS.
Refuse to carry our group if you don't want to -- givwen your
attitude, I doubt that there are any users on your machine that are
capable of appreciating talk.bizarre anyway -- but don't waste time
pontificating to us about how we should all be efficient societal
cogs. That's just so much Reaganite utilitarian bullshit.

Talk.bizarre is surpassed in per reader
}cost only by some binary/source groups and talk.politics/religion/abortion
}groups.

So put THEM on probation first, and when WE'RE at the top of your
little Per-Reader-Cost shit list, come after US, dweeb. Or is there
something socially redeeming about pointless maundering in the
politics, religion and abortion groups that should be protected, over
and above our desire for FUN?

}I tell you I get more and more serious every day about my idea of putting
}high volume groups on probation. 

Then do it -- at your site -- and shut the hell up.


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                              greg