Xref: utzoo comp.sys.amiga:20098 alt.flame:2047 Path: utzoo!hoptoad!ihnp4!att!mtunx!rutgers!labrea!husc6!bloom-beacon!think!ames!killer!tness7!tness1!nuchat!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,alt.flame Subject: Re: Death to binaries (was re: pictures in binaries) Keywords: Like wow, man. Message-ID: <2132@sugar.UUCP> Date: 17 Jun 88 13:42:04 GMT References: <4476@gryphon.CTS.COM> Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX Lines: 62 You know, I think this is the first public flame I've gotten that both contained an obscenity and wasn't obviously a 12 year old. In article ... richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) writes: > In article <2124@sugar.UUCP> peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes: > >I realise that there might well be a lot more people who can use binaries > >than sources, however we (yes, an editorial we) believe that the purpose > >of usenet is to support: first, UNIX programmers and users; second, > >programmers of other species of operating system; and third, everyone else. > ``We'' Kimasabbee ? (That's "Kemosabe") Yes, as in "we Usenet system admins at large companies". Ferranti isn't a backbone yet, but there are people in management that like the idea. To the sites that carry most of Usenet it's a resource for their programmers: primarily UNIX, and only secondarily toy machines like PCs. > Chuq is looney tunes. He gets like this every time his wife cuts him > off or a big machine drops off the net. Hey, you flamed two people at once! > Because it is decentralized, you can't kill USENET on purpose or > by accident. If the feds came in tomorrow and tried to shut USENET > off, they wouldnt be able to. I think if they got injunctions against uunet, the public access systems, and the Internet there wouldn't be much of Usenet left. In fact, I think Fidonet would be bigger than the remnants. > >Again. Usenet is not a BBS. Usenet is a resource for programmers. Let's > >not lose sight of that. > Gosh Peter, thanks for telling us what USENET is. You are however, > completely blowing it out your bunghole. There. I promised an obscenity. USENET is whatever the people paying the bills say it is. Most of the bills are being paid by Big Nasty Corporations, and this is what they think they're paying for: comp.unix.*,comp.lang.*,comp.sys.selected.groups,comp.sources.unix, comp.sources.misc... They, by and large, don't know about (or if they do they don't carry): > general alt.individualism alt.aquaria alt.sex alt.drugs alt.rock-n-roll ... and so on. > >On the plus side, comp.*.amiga was a lot further down in the top-40 this > >time around... > BFD. Ever see a #1 group actually get killed ? Soc.singles or .women > will go first. But blood will be shed first. (Is BFD obscene? I know BSD is.) I really don't think that anyone's going to put their life on the line for a newsgroup. -- -- Peter da Silva `-_-' ...!hoptoad!academ!uhnix1!sugar!peter -- "Have you hugged your U wolf today?" ...!bellcore!tness1!sugar!peter -- Disclaimer: These may be the official opinions of Hackercorp.