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From: ptgarvin@uokmax.uucp (Patrick T. Garvin)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: Pagan newsgroup
Message-ID: <1990Feb3.002622.13955@uokmax.uucp>
Date: 3 Feb 90 00:26:22 GMT
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In article <5626@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt1020a@prism.gatech.EDU (Ken Yousten) writes:
]I am not sure that the Usenet community is capable of holding an intelligent,
]sincere discussion for very long. Oh, some newsgroups manage it for weeks, or
]even months, at a time. But, soon enough, someone who doesn't really care
]about the topic, someone who measures their self-worth as their ability to
]make others unhappy, will feel the need to screw it up for everyone else.
]Naive, well-meaning readers will follow them up, and it will snowball.

As a counter-example, I offer the example of rec.org.sca

]  o    Ken Yousten                       oo    90% of everything is crap


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