Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site rabbit.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!alice!rabbit!jbk From: jbk@rabbit.UUCP (Joseph B Kruskal) Newsgroups: net.general,net.jokes Subject: Misuse of the newsgroups Message-ID: <3032@rabbit.UUCP> Date: Fri, 3-Aug-84 08:59:27 EDT Article-I.D.: rabbit.3032 Posted: Fri Aug 3 08:59:27 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 4-Aug-84 02:45:32 EDT Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 6 The netnews system can only be effective if the newsgroups are used for their proper purpose, and not diluted by extraneous items. I think the recent spoof letter (from "Ronald Reagan" to "Hinkley") is a flagrant violation of this principle, as well violating other customs. Let's leave the jokes on net.jokes, and restrict each newsgroup to its appropriate purpose.