Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site bbncca.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!bbncca!sdyer From: sdyer@bbncca.ARPA (Steve Dyer) Newsgroups: net.motss Subject: Re: tidbits Message-ID: <888@bbncca.ARPA> Date: Wed, 8-Aug-84 12:11:29 EDT Article-I.D.: bbncca.888 Posted: Wed Aug 8 12:11:29 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 9-Aug-84 01:17:43 EDT References: <3159@decwrl.UUCP> Organization: Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, Ma. Lines: 32 If you look at my responses to Arndt, you'll note that they are brief and to the point. I take your claim lumping both Arndt and myself together as "comic relief" as a personal insult and a cheap shot, and it betrays a complete inability or unwillingness to discriminate among the various postings to net.motss in the past few months. This kind of response is typical, it seems, not only here on USENET, but in today's society. One becomes a target for cheap shots, not on the content of one's comments, but from the fact that one cared enough to comment. All ideas are equivalent and have equal merit, and one side is as obnoxious as the other. Perhaps I should be like the great, silent majority of net.motss readers and let the group die from neglect or being overrun by Miss America comments, or degenerating into nature/nurture discussions. Some of us (not just me) won't have that, and if it takes a public comment to change things, we'll speak up. If more people participated in net.motss, this kind of monopolization of the group, both by topic and by contributor, would vanish. I'd LOVE to be a small fish in a big pond, as I surmise would the other handful of serious contributors here. Crank postings would be viewed as anomalies instead of a large percentage of the volume. So how about it? What about monogamy (a remarkably uncontroversial topic, it seems.) How about one's experience in the workplace? How about money issues, etc., when settling down with someone? There's lots to discuss other than this meta-discussion. -- /Steve Dyer {decvax,linus,ima}!bbncca!sdyer sdyer@bbncca.ARPA