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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: A moderator's liability (was flack about rec.humor.funny)
Message-ID: <1989Feb12.014406.22500@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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Date: Sun, 12 Feb 89 01:44:06 GMT

In article <2562@kalliope.rice.edu> phil@Rice.edu (William LeFebvre) writes:
>>[old-timers] tend to feel... that the johnny-come-latelies
>>whining about the loss of "the spirit of Usenet" don't know what they're
>>talking about.
>
>I see.  Or to put it another way, I don't know what I'm talking about?
>
>Thank you very much.
>
>			William LeFebvre

I can't say about you in particular, but any time somebody starts talking
about the "spirit of Usenet" as if it were something sacred that will
surely be destroyed if the net changes significantly... I have to wonder
whether that person is aware of how much the net has changed already,
and how much the "spirit of Usenet" has changed to match.  Depending on
what aspect of it you're interested in, the "spirit of Usenet" either is
long dead or has proved remarkably resilient in the face of continued
change and growth.
-- 
The Earth is our mother;       |     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
our nine months are up.        | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu