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From: silverio@spam.berkeley.edu (christine silverio)
Newsgroups: news.admin,talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: Top 25 News Groups for the last 2 weeks (from talk.bizarre)
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Date: 3 Mar 88 07:07:31 GMT
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Summary: why does the net exist?

In article <129@ccd700.UUCP> jim@ccd700.UUCP (J. Sitek) writes:
>In article <1870@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>, greg@phoenix.UUCP writes:
>> In article <11838@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> esj@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Eric S. Johnson) writes:
>> >>I'm done preaching. I'll go post 96K to talk.bizarre now. Good day.

>I put it to you that Usenet does not exist to provide you with a 
>psychological relief valve.  Your method for letting off steam is,
>again, no less valid than the soc. peoples' (sic).  THEY ARE 
>*EQUALLY* INVALID.  You go check any bit of documentation ever written
>on the subject of Usenet.  I will bet that *nowhere* will you find
>that Usenet exists to provide anyone with a method of letting off
>steam.  

People like this are counterproductive to the intents of USENET.
It is becoming an over-regulated middle-manager's heaven,
where anal-retentive types like Sitek can spout off against
the very people who create things like the net.  People
who think need to play, and I don't think a reasonable
person can dispute that.  Sitek's version of the net has
all the comp groups, maybe his favorite rec.sport group because
HE reads it (therefore it's valid), and a vast wasteland
where the fun and personal contact of the net come in.

>> As long as you're just targeting talk.bizarre, you DO
>> sound like a whiny administrator with no sense of humor.

>While *you* sound like a whiny college student who should spend more
>time in English class, and less time crying about the potential loss
>of your favorite toy.

Yes, I think we've got a case of whiny administrator here.
Whiny constipated administrator. 

>> >Personally I think the talk/soc and even the alt groups are good
>> >things. They add a little humanity to the net. 

>More like mysogeny. (sic)

Good thing we can all spell, here.  Oh yeah, spelling flames aren't
allowed, except when administrator-types want to insult the 
intelligence of other, lesser, users.

[lots of volume-creating drivel deleted.  Did you really have to
quote ALL that, Sitek?  Or were you trying to drive up the VOLUME?]

>> ...!seismo!princeton!phoenix!greg


>....  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.

Sitek flames himself all too well with that last sentence.  
Congratulations.  Greg couldn't have done better if he'd tried.
Though no doubt he'll find a way.  Go for it, Greg, in the
interests of anarchy, creative thought, and, how could I 
forget, VOLUME.

>Jim Sitek

CJ Silverio,
both a serious and a recreational user of the Net

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