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From: ab3@pucc-h (Darth Wombat)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: new newsgroups
Message-ID: <514@pucc-h>
Date: Fri, 3-Feb-84 10:20:24 EST
Article-I.D.: pucc-h.514
Posted: Fri Feb  3 10:20:24 1984
Date-Received: Wed, 8-Feb-84 05:34:38 EST
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
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	A quick word or two about newsgroups under consideration:

	1. net.religion.jewish?  WHY?  Net.religion is full of flames anyway,
why spread them out?

	2a. net.records -> net.music.  Yes, let's do it and get it over with.
	
	2b. net.music.*   NO!  There aren't enough articles to warrant it.
Most folks are going to wind up subscribing to all the subgroups anyway.

	Finally, a sore point:  WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH HITTING THE "N" KEY?

	If you can't stand to see articles about ketchup, speeding, creationism,
or whatever, and if those articles are clearly labelled as such, how long does 
it take to skip said articles?

	If they're NOT labelled correctly, flame at the author; creating 
more newsgroups will not solve *this* problem.

	And, especially for those of you who read news on "company" time--
like I do-- if you're reading a non-work-related newsgroup, what possible
grounds do you have for complaining about the submissions there, since you're
wasting your company's, not your, time reading them?

	I'm not trying to make excuses for the delta-minus semi-morons who
post silly inquiries to net.general; I'm trying to point out how fatuous I
perceive all this complaining about an {essentially free} service to be 
at times.

	Good grief, when you read a newspaper you skip the {un-interesting,
disgusting, boring, etc} articles without complaining, don't you?

	Sorry for the flame, but I remember the days before Netnews, when
we were all isolated in our little Unix worlds...now we have a wonderful
tool for communicating information and we use half of it to bitch about
the other half.

	Looking for my asbestos mittens,


-- 
"Go ahead...make my day."
Darth Wombat
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