Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!steinmetz!davidsen
From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: I'm tired of alt.rissa!
Message-ID: <13356@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 13 Mar 89 18:55:54 GMT
References: <763@twwells.uucp>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <763@twwells.uucp> bill@twwells.UUCP (T. William Wells) writes:

| HOWEVER, some *ssholes are in the business of creating alt groups as
| a prank, or as a public statement, or what have you.  Unfortunately,
| there being no constraint on creating alt groups, I really don't have
| any grounds for telling them to f*ck off. Though they should.

  I think you're looking for a solution to something which isn't a
problem. The alt groups are only carried by those who want to carry
them. Having one person create a newsgroup is not going to harm
anything, if the volume or content is unsuitable people will do a manual
rmgroup and stop feeding it.

  If this happens too often sites close to the source will stop carrying
the offending site completely. The price of freedom of speech is that
you might hear something which offends you, such as people offended by
your language, or you being offended by this reply.

  If alt.rissa offends you, press the 'u' key gently but firmly. Don't
carry it. Don't forward it. I haven't seen any signal to noise at all in
it, but I really don't care. Maybe if we ignore the group it will go
away (now I'm sure rissa is mad at me, too).
-- 
	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me