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From: headroom@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (The only computer-generated user at UWM)
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Subject: Re: Top 25 News Groups for the last 2 weeks (from talk.bizarre)
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Date: 29 Feb 88 13:26:16 GMT
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Brad Templeton whines:
}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!


I think your wrong.

I'm just posting this for VOLUME.......


Mark "Probation.....HAHAHAHAAHA!!!!!" Lippert
net.average.joe 
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