[net.sources] Lock your terminal for lunch and 50 others

brian@ukma.UUCP (Brian Sturgill) (09/20/85)

This is about high phone bill and stupid traffic on the net.

Having just spent 2 hours reading mostly junk from the
net, and now finding that net.sources is even more cluttered
than ever before (look at all the "lock" programs which
anyone should be able to write). I feel that everything on the
net ought to be in the newsgroup net.trash.  I realize that
this is somewhat exagerated, but I am tired of spending so
much time going through junk to get to something interesting.
I simply refuse to read unix-wizards as, as much bad advice
as good is given, and all of it much too verbosely. Is there not
a better way?  It is getting harder and harder to justify
paying the phone bill when 80% of the net traffic is worthless.
In particular, the sources groups are among the most expensive, because of
their size.  And while I realize that the unofficial "net administraters"
are considering the problem, the only thing I see actually coming
through is complaints about what news group someone posts to,
which is silly.  It would seem to me that the important thing about
a network is for people to communicate. If people would simply post
things of a general interest (checking first to see if there is an interest),
then only a small number of groups would be necessary.  People that
talk longly and foolishly in groups like net.religion, net.unix-wizards,
and all those people that want new hack and rogue sources,
etc. need to realize that someone is paying the phone bill that
allows them to do that, and at this site for one, that is not
easy. PLEASE, keep the foolishnes in "important" groups like net.sources
to a minimum.

Brian Sturgill  cbosgd!ukma!brian

(anyone not liking where I posted this can stuff it)

foss@ihuxe.UUCP (foss) (09/27/85)

> This is about high phone bill and stupid traffic on the net.

Lets all start playing our small violins...

> Having just spent 2 hours reading mostly junk from the
> net, and now finding that net.sources is even more cluttered
> than ever before (look at all the "lock" programs which
> anyone should be able to write). 

I guess someone must have had a knife to your back...

> ...It is getting harder and harder to justify
> paying the phone bill when 80% of the net traffic is worthless.

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