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From: krone@presto.ig.com (Larry Krone)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Purposes of group
Message-ID: <6803@ig.ig.com>
Date: 12 Oct 88 20:07:06 GMT
Article-I.D.: ig.6803
References: <6798@ig.ig.com> <3536@phri.UUCP>
Reply-To: krone@PRESTO.IG.COM.UUCP (Larry Krone)
Organization: IntelliGenetics Inc., Mtn. View, Ca.
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In article <3536@phri.UUCP> roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
>
>	Technical, yes.  Boring, I hope not.  Around here, we've got computer
>resources which were bought to help us do real work, not as entertainment
>devices.  The vast majority of our funding comes from NIH and NSF, which
>means your tax dollars paid for it.  Which would you rather have us do with
>your tax dollars, spend them on boring technical stuff like figuring out how
>to make Suns deal properly with nameservers and how to make the GenBank
>database more useful (being at IG, you should appreciate that example) or
>spend them on arguing about the ethics of abortion, discussing the relative
>merits of one TV show over another, and passing around 500 old light bulb
>jokes?  Granted, I could chop out a lot of the drivel by just not getting the
>soc and rec groups (we already don't get alt and talk), but sometimes I think
>that the quality of comp.unix.wizards isn't much better, and certainly most
>of news.* is turning into a sewer.
>

I am not going to respond to another message through the group (I 
will respond via Email) as I think the purpose of news.admin should have
been to introduce this discussion, not continue it...However, since I 
have already started this, Personally I think that a tax dollar spent
on furthering computer communincation is a tax dollar not spent on:

1) War
2) Pork Barrel politics
3) Political Campaigns

and is much better spent on UseNet....PLEASE if Y'all want to discuss
this do it through EMAIL (I'd hate to have this turn into net.news.politics),
As my argument against censorship falls down to its knees if people don't
treat groups with respect...


Larry