Xref: utzoo rec.humor.d:1591 news.admin:4742 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wasatch!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!bu-cs!purdue!decwrl!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!mcvax!ukc!stl!dww From: dww@stl.stc.co.uk (David Wright) Newsgroups: rec.humor.d,news.admin Subject: Re: Introduction to REC.HUMOR.FUNNY -- Monthly Posting Message-ID: <999@acer.stl.stc.co.uk> Date: 8 Feb 89 09:42:56 GMT References: <2712@looking.UUCP> <1449@papaya.bbn.com> <2944@stiatl.UUCP> <363@magnus.UUCP> <2724@looking.UUCP> <11693@gryphon.COM> <1745@hp-sdd.hp.com> Reply-To: "David Wright" Organization: STL,Harlow,UK. Lines: 25 Are all USAians paranoid, I wonder, or is it just those who post on these groups? Having met many sane ones, I shall assume the latter. As someone else has said, stop crying when you haven't been hurt. It's true that Brad doesn't own rec.humor.funny (or if he does, it's the way someone 'owns' a cat), but he created it in the first place and has put far more into it than most of his detractors have put into the whole d**n net. You can take it away from him if you want, but if you do, you will be destroying a valuable work - the group would not be the same without Brad. Why do you think it's one of the most popular groups on the net? In the (unlikely) event that the net votes against Brad as moderator, or in the (more likely) event that he decides putting all his time into it isn't fun anymore, I think you'll find a lot of us would stop reading - or even stop taking - a non-Bradian rec.humor.funny. And - far more important - a net in which one of the most hard working and long suffering moderators had been hounded out *BY THE NET* would be a sad and bitter place. Who would want to be associated with such a thing? By all means disagree with Brad if he makes a mistake, but this bitter paranoid flaming is not the way to disagree. -- Regards, "Just 'cos you CAN send messages everywhere, doesn't mean you HAVE to" David Wright STL, London Road, Harlow, Essex CM17 9NA, UK dww@stl.stc.co.uk ...uunet!mcvax!ukc!stl!dww PSI%234237100122::DWW