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From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: news.admin,talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: Another flame from greg
Message-ID: <1442@looking.UUCP>
Date: 28 Feb 88 06:02:21 GMT
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Reply-To: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
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I appreciate the recent attack on talk.bizarre posted by Greg@mind.uucp.
Nothing I could write could so easily unite people against the group.

When net.bizarre was created, it was truly bizarre, and it contained
a number of highly interesting and innovative articles.  It also, like
many groups, contained excessive amounts of self-indulgent drivel.  As
the good and bizarre stuff faded away, I, like many, unsubscribed.

In the interests of looking for potentially funny material, I resubscribed
last year for a few months.  There was little bizarre or funny to be found
there.  Just the sort of cutsey drek I got tired of in junior high school.

[ I deserved to say that last line, due to the personal attacks I'm
responding to. ]

I'm all for people creating their own special community of net posters
and writing what they please.  But do it on a BBS.  My guess is that
most other sysadmins don't think that "VOLUME VOLUME VOLUME" is a
legitimate goal for a community oriented newsgroup like talk.bizarre.
If other sysadmins do agree with that goal, please speak up.

		- Brad, your "rec.humor.funny fascist"
			(Kinda a neat title, eh?)
-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. - Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473