Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!ll-xn!mit-eddie!killer!wnp
From: wnp@killer.UUCP (Wolf Paul)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Warning: Offensive to techies
Message-ID: <3681@killer.UUCP>
Date: 14 Mar 88 02:39:47 GMT
References: <7614@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: wnp@killer.UUCP (Wolf Paul)
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Keywords: looney, slander


In article <7614@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> era1987@violet.berkeley.edu
(Mark Ethan Smith) laments:
>
>The answer is that the techies who wrote the usenet software, maintain
>it, are the majority of net readers, and are the only ones with the
>power to enforce standards, are not willing to enforce any standards
>in noise groups, or to permit technical status to a group involving
>women or human rights.
>

Whatever your opinion of the "techies", if they are, as you say, the majority
of net readers, then it is perfectly normal in a democracy that they should
be the ones to enforce standards.

Also, keep in mind that without the techies and their usenet software
(not to mention UNIX itself, and the hardware, etc -- all created by techies)
there would be no USENET.

Further, it is the techies who have to defend USENET to their employers'
accountants, and it's nearly impossible to convince an accountant that
a noise group is as useful as a technical discussion group.

I am sure that CompuServe, Genie or the Source would be quite willing
to carry such groups, and there everybody pays their own bills.
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