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From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,alt.flame
Subject: Re: Death to binaries (was re: pictures in binaries)
Summary: woof
Keywords: Like wow, man.
Message-ID: <4523@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: 18 Jun 88 05:56:06 GMT
References: <4476@gryphon.CTS.COM> <2132@sugar.UUCP>
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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In article <2132@sugar.UUCP> peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
>
>Hey, you flamed two people at once!

So what. Everyone on talk.bizarre is a bleeding idiot. There, now
I flamed 15,000 people at once. So what.
>
>> 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.

Peter, what on earth are you talking about ? ``Injunctions against
UUNET and pubic access sites.'' You wanna explain that.

>> >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...

I assume you can back up that ludicrous claim.

>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.

Granted you trimmed the list of 80 non computer groups to the few that
are easiest to pick on. The point remains though, Peter, that of the
roughly 400 newsgroups, only about 100 are computer related. They enjoy
wide distribution. Although it is net.chic to claim that USENET is for
UNIX weenies, it is not true. The massive number of non UNIX, non-computer
newsgroups should indicate that to you.

>
>I really don't think that anyone's going to put their life on the line for a
>newsgroup.

Uh yeah, right. When you get back from mars, post again.



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richard@gryphon.CTS.COM                               {backbone}!gryphon!richard