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From: kyl@homxb.UUCP (Cindy)
Newsgroups: news.admin,talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: Top 25 News Groups for the last 2 weeks (from talk.bizarre)
Message-ID: <1394@homxb.UUCP>
Date: 26 Feb 88 20:21:57 GMT
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In article <1435@looking.UUCP>, brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) writes:
> 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
> >(Bill Rubin) grumps to news.admin:
> >>Now, I have never read talk.bizarre, and I know there are some sites
> >>which do not carry the talk. groups, but we have decided not to do this
> >>here, because we feel that it is important that we carry as much as
> >>possible.
> >>
> >>But when I see this kind of garbage, posted not once but three times, I
> >>have to wonder if we are making the correct decision. I would ask if
> >>people realize the overhead involved in each message they post, but the
> >>obvious answer in this case is that they could care less. At minimum,
> >>talk.bizarre postings are going to get a much shorter life at my site.
> >
> >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.
> 
> 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)
> 
> 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.  Talk.bizarre is surpassed in per reader
> cost only by some binary/source groups and talk.politics/religion/abortion
> groups.
> 
> I tell you I get more and more serious every day about my idea of putting
> high volume groups on probation.  This crazy attitude is costing everybody
> real money.  Certain types of groups feed more volume in an upward
> spiral.  I get my news feed locally, so up to now I haven't had much
> to complain about except the money I've spent on bigger disk packs.  But
> now my feed keeps asking me to spend $1,000 on a Telebit because dialin
> times are too long (even for local calls!) and people who dial in for
> other reasons complain that it's busy too often with news calls, and
> ask me to get other lines.
> 
> I don't know how people who feed over long distance lines can put up
> with it!
> -- 
> Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. - Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473

    Brad,

       That article just cost the net thousands and thousands of dollars.
       Now don't you feel bad about doing the very thing you complained about?

            Cindy