Xref: utzoo comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d:411 news.admin:2583 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!uwvax!vanvleck!uwmcsd1!ig!agate!pasteur!cory.Berkeley.EDU!browning From: browning@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Craig Browning) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d,news.admin Subject: Re: No games or picture files for now Message-ID: <3918@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu> Date: 14 Jun 88 03:33:36 GMT References: <2350@slvblc.UUCP> <1577@hoqax.UUCP> <22047@amdcad.AMD.COM> <8083@brl-smoke.ARPA> Sender: news@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu Reply-To: browning@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Craig Browning) Distribution: na Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 49 In article <8083@brl-smoke.ARPA> w8sdz@brl.arpa (Keith B. Petersen (WSMR|towson) ) writes: >Please save your reactions until Rhaul returns. I'm sure he will review >the decision. >-- >Keith Petersen >Arpa: W8SDZ@SIMTEL20.ARPA >Uucp: {bellcore,decwrl,harvard,lll-crg,ucbvax,uw-beaver}!simtel20.arpa!w8sdz >GEnie: W8SDZ You're such a nice guy, Keith. But I think a better idea is: Let Rahul return and see the burned smoldering body of Dick Flanagan, and that will make up his mind. Now. :) Just think, if we had only killed Hitler before he got power... a hint of :) Craig P.S. To those who suggest Compuserve, YOU go to Compuserve... why should those of us who don't pay extra for our accounts have to got to the major expense of Compuserve? The truth is that BBS's have all of the utilities and few of the games and pictures, in my calling; all of the utiilities I've liked recently on the net recently I had earlier from BBS's, but none of the pictures and I'd like to see more games in bin; lots of requests for nethack etc. have been posted asking for posting for instance. More seriously, please don't be quick to demand taking away what someone else wants, because next time they might take your thing like binaries. To the issue of anarchy, I can only suggest there seems to be a history of anarchy by choice on the net. REMEMBER many of us opposed a moderator, and we ahould be as little inconvenienced as possible by censorship. I don't support posting to .d with files because civility rules it out, at least until things get too bad, but do try to postpone the takeover of all groups by moderators. I think most moderators are great helps, but there is the mechanism for bad things, and the benifit seems to fall with ineffecient anarchy over censorship... My answer is moderators who delete horribly abusive postings in discussion groups, text in binaries, etc. but let the members censor themselves on what is posted (i.e. If someone posted the same program every week that would be properly censored.) The porblems we had are solved now with the above moderator as he will censor commercial postings and text from bin, we didn't have any problems other than that. Remember, please respect other people's desires. Diversity is the important thing here, every program here is used by probably few people except arc of course. Craig SNAP 3.0 is out; if it's better than 2.2 GET IT. I haven't heard back from the author on posting, Keith have you talked to him? On the ladies archive that still seems to generate mail in this group: I believe the last word is that it is bad, just delete it.