Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!pasteur!agate!garnet!weemba From: weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu (Obnoxious Emacs Weenie) Newsgroups: news.misc Subject: Re: Take a sniff of Gnews Message-ID: <7999@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: 25 Mar 88 09:34:38 GMT References: <1501@looking.UUCP> <34@ncar.ucar.edu> <7928@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <116@atpal.UUCP> Sender: usenet@agate.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu (a small gnews-ance) Organization: Brahms Gang Posting Central Lines: 24 In-reply-to: tneff@atpal.UUCP (Tom Neff) I like it. I've created a new form of rudeness! In article <116@atpal.UUCP>, tneff@atpal (Tom Neff) writes: >** 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. Ain't it a shame. Those interested in those raucous wide-open "I vote yes"/ "I vote no" discussions might have to start their own in talk.bizarre, since those high-tech wet blankets choked the life out of them in news.groups. >** 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. To really make those daisies grow, fertilize with endless reruns of toilet seat UP! DOWN! UP! DOWN! UP! DOWN! discussions in soc.singles. >** Do we understand each other? (y or n) Not yet. ucbvax!garnet!weemba Matthew P Wiener/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720