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From: jsb@actnyc.UUCP (The Invisible Man)
Newsgroups: news.admin,talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: The great up-the-volume war (was: Re: Top 25 News Groups ...)
Message-ID: <738@actnyc.UUCP>
Date: 18 Mar 88 14:46:23 GMT
References: <4955@uwmcsd1.UUCP> <322@jc3b21.UUCP> <3171@chinet.UUCP> <8393@eddie.MIT.EDU> <1426@homxb.UUCP> <36053CLT@PSUVMA>
Reply-To: jsb@actnyc.UUCP (The Invisible Man)
Organization: Diet Software
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In article <36053CLT@PSUVMA> CLT@PSUVMA.BITNET (Merlin of Chaos) writes:
>In article <1426@homxb.UUCP>, kyl@homxb.UUCP (Cindy) says:
><
><     rec.psi exists at my site, but there have only been 115 articles
><     posted to it.  They did not give any reasons why they do not want
><     to support specific groups. I find the whole idea of restricting
><     netnews pretty bizarre.
><
><               Cindy
>
>Sounds like they're restricting netnews just for the sake of restricting
>something...after all, they are AT&T.
>

Somebody must say the proper bizarre thing here before someone else says the
same thing seriously.  It might as well be me:

Netnews is a privilege not a right.  The privately owned conglomerates which
own us as well could rightly restrict the news to absolute zero and we should
then be grateful.  They are our masters and betters and have the right - nay,
the responsibility to restrict the news and if you dont like it, you're not only
ungrateful but mentally disturbed as well, have never had to meet a payroll, are
unaware of the enormous costs borne cheerfully by the aforementioned 
conglomerates solely bcause the love us (unworthy though we be), and don't live
in the real world.  This is NOT a free speech issue (as would be the issue of
AT&T not charging for phone calls) but a free enterprise issue.  You're
perfectly able and welcome to work/live elsewhere and create your own news
network with your own policies.  Groups like rec.psi should never have existed
in the first place: first because they're "rec" which means unserious (i.e. 
never had to meet a payroll) and second because they're "psi" which means
unscientific.  

There.  It's been said.  Now everyone get back to work. NOW!!!  I mean it!!
I'm not kidding!!
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				jim (uunet!actnyc!jsb)