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From: ron@ccd700.UUCP (ron)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Top 25 News Groups for the last 2 weeks (from talk.bizarre)
Message-ID: <131@ccd700.UUCP>
Date: 2 Mar 88 13:04:11 GMT
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Organization: Ford CCD, Dearborn Michigan
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Summary: support for Mr. Siteks position

> I get paid to support Usenet (among many other things).  I won't say
> that talk.bizarre is any *less* worthy of my time than the aforementioned
> soc groups.  They are all *equally* unworthy of my time, period.  Am I
> a fascist sysadmin? Perhaps.  Do I care if that's what you think of me?
> Nope.  The people around here get paid to design automobiles, not to
> waste the company's time and money arguing with psychotic feminists,
> arguing the merits of singles bars, or (worst case) posting juvenile,
> often unintelligible nonsense to the ends of the earth.  It is for this
> reason that I have chosen to eliminate the talk/soc groups from our
> feed.  Besides, I was getting a little tired of coming in every
> morning and seeing "file system full" on my console screen.
> 

	Jim is quite correct in his attitude towards the missuse
of the network that is shown by the contents of talk.bizzare and the
soc. groups.  In all the time I have serviced these news feeds
I have only seen an increasing load of verbal orgasm and primadona
screaming matches.  This is not to say that ALL of the material
is trash, just an ever increasing percentage AND volume.

	YES! we have shut off the talk and soc groups.  This leaf
was installed as an information resource for this area of Ford and
only exists to serve that purpose.  We could no longer justify
the time and expense of accepting the TRASH!
	
> In closing, I would say that talk.bizarre can best be thought of as a
> luxury.  It is in no way vital to the well being of the net, or the
> people posting to it.  However, when the people who pay the tab for
> this luxury feel that it is being abused, they are within their 
> rights to say so.  And they should be able to do so without having to
> put up with all this self righteous bullshit from the people who are
> the worst offenders.
> 
> Jim Sitek

Thanks Jim!
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