Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!steinmetz!davidsen
From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Proposed comp.sys.ibm.pc.tech
Keywords: bullshit
Message-ID: <10903@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 19 May 88 15:09:54 GMT
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Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
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What we need is a way to get topics (like this) where they belong,
talk.bizarre or /dev/null. In over a hundred articles the only useful
thing was a question on putting command.com in RAMdisk and the answers
to it.

This should not be a discussion group for non-PC topics.

I don't want to hear about your Mac here, I don't care what you think
about the Apple lawsuit, the only opinions that coult are the jury's.
Talk about it in politics or headlines. I don't care what you think
about how much the chairman of Lotus makes, not does he.

This group used to be filled with stuff like "I've got a problem, can
someone help?" and "Here's something useful I found." As much as I want
a GIF newsgroup, there's a newgroup newsgroup (say it three times fast)
just for that. We all agree that there are over a hundred people
interested, so why beat it to death. Call it anything you damn well
please as long as you do it somewhere else.

comp.binaries.ibm.pc is now moderated because the signal to noise ratio
reached zero. If we don't want this moderated I suggest a little
restraint about topics and how much of an original article to quote. My
kill file for this group is one of the biggest I have.

If you disagree please do it by mail.
-- 
	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me