Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!pwcmrd!skipnyc!atpal!tneff
From: tneff@atpal.UUCP (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Take a sniff of Gnews
Message-ID: <116@atpal.UUCP>
Date: 24 Mar 88 21:54:01 GMT
References: <1501@looking.UUCP> <34@ncar.ucar.edu> <7928@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: tneff@atpal.UUCP (Tom Neff)
Organization: Rational Technologies, Inc.
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Summary: Big Brother is Newsing


Can you imagine the reaction to the following warning screen appearing to
a poster on news.misc:

**  You seem to be posting yet another over-intelligent blocking message
**  to be thrust in the face of poor net users trying to enjoy themselves.
**  As you may have heard, these high-tech wet blankets are slowly choking
**  the life out of what was once a raucous, wide-open discussion resource.
**  Your latest contribution just might be the straw that breaks the camel's
**  back.  I will post it if you absolutely insist, but don't blame me if this
**  site is pushing up daisies in another two years, along with half the Net.
**
**  Do we understand each other? (y or n)


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Tom Neff