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From: RWC102@PSUVM (R. W. F. Clark)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Purposes of group
Keywords: Lysergic lemonade
Message-ID: <57109RWC102@PSUVM>
Date: 12 Oct 88 19:17:29 GMT
Expires: 20-Oct-88 00:00:00 EST
References: <6798@ig.ig.com> <3536@phri.UUCP>
Organization: Syd Barrett Cabal, the Harlequinade, and the Hell Club
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In article <3536@phri.UUCP>, roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) says:
>
>. . .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?

First, that's an unfair categorization of the purpose of the rec.
and talk. groups.  rec.arts.books, for example, hardly falls into
this category.  It would be unfair were I to categorize the comp.
groups as useless based upon the crap in comp.unix.wizards, while
ignoring the RISK Forum and the interesting comp.theory.* sub-sub-
hierarchy.

Second, in answer to your question, I'd rather do both.


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rwc102@psuvm.BITNET                                 Robert Wayne Clark