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From: esj@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Eric S. Johnson)
Newsgroups: news.admin,talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: Top 25 News Groups for the last 2 weeks (from talk.bizarre)
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Date: 27 Feb 88 03:27:49 GMT
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In article <8272@eddie.MIT.EDU> wisner@eddie.MIT.EDU (Bill Wisner) writes:
>In article <1156WGRCU@CUNYVM> [god, no, not BITNET!] WGRCU@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU

>>  ... Some gunuine concerns about the idea that has gotten into 
>>      the head of some talk bizarre posters. Some seem to think it
>>      would be a very bizarre and funny thing if they could post
>>      so much as to make the group #1 in traffic.

>
>This, students, is a textbook case of WHINY ADMINISTRATOR. Yes, that's
>right, WHINY ADMINISTRATOR. Apologies to greg.
>
>I would even ask if Mr. Rubin has the tiniest shred of a sense of humor.
>
>Alas, the obvious answer in this case is no.
>
>I'm done preaching. I'll go post 96K to talk.bizarre now. Good day.
>

Real bright move Bill. You just go right ahead. Id give talk.bizarre
about a one week life span if it ever hit #1. I know I would get rid of
it here if that happened. And Im quite sure many other sites would too.
Do you have something serious against the group?

Personally I think the talk/soc and even the alt groups are good
things. They add a little humanity to the net.  I even read ole
talk.bizarre when Im in the right mood, and once or twice posted.  But
the attitude that Mr Bill and some other posters to talk.bizarre seem
to take realy bugs me. What can mass posting prove?  "Hey, I only
posted 10K today; ok, ill just post strings vmunix to talk.bizarre. 
Wow man, pretty bizarre eh? What a sense of humor have I"
I can only call this kind of thinking childish.

I hope the readers and posters in talk.bizarre remember this:  Posting
anything and everything, just to become the #1 newsgroup, will end the
group. Its that simple. No one who has to worry about disk space or
phone bills will even think twice.

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