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From: ray@micomvax.UUCP (Ray Dunn)
Newsgroups: news.admin,talk.bizarre,alt.flame
Subject: Re: Top 25 News Groups for the last 2 weeks (from talk.bizarre)
Message-ID: <936@micomvax.UUCP>
Date: 11 Mar 88 21:08:53 GMT
References: <7080@uunet.UU.NET> <1918@mind.UUCP> <1156WGRCU@CUNYVM> <8272@eddie.MIT.EDU> <1988Feb25.180435.6363@utzoo.uucp> <8301@eddie.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: ray@micomvax.UUCP (Ray Dunn)
Organization: Philips Electronics Ltd. (TDS - Montreal) St. Laurent P.Q., Canada
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In article <8301@eddie.MIT.EDU> wisner@eddie.MIT.EDU (Bill Wisner) writes:
>In an article with a REAL long ID, henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>>It's amazing how little amusement one gets out of paying large phone bills,
>>scrambling to find more disk space, placating users who demand to know why
>>the modems are always busy when they want to do real work, etc.  You should
>>try it some time.
>
>Are we going around in circles? This brings me back to my original article:
>if you don't like the damned group, drop it!
>

God knows or cares what your original article said, but it is *not* as
simple as "dropping" a group.  The support a site provides for a newsgroup
also involves feeding it on down the line to the next site!  Childish antics
in a group can create a situation where a site administrator may be forced
to censor that group to down-line sites!

Our system is about 2 weeks behind in news processing due to the amount of
disk space required by all the verbiage and the fact that we pass it on to
several sites.

If *you* don't like the realities of the problems this childish behaviour on
USENET creates, then *you* keep off the net!

I do however agree that LONG signatures are antisocial, unnecessary, and the
funny/clever ones are only funny/clever the FIRST time you read them!

Ray Dunn.  ..{philabs, mnetor, musocs}!micomvax!ray