[net.suicide] Net.suicide lives

sjb (11/16/82)

For some reason, net.suicide was the victim of a rmgroup control
message.  As this is an officially sanctioned (read:  There was
discussion on it and the net accepted it and it is now active),
I have recreated it.

hawley (11/16/82)

Net.suicide is back?  And I thought it had just killed itself off.
Chalk up another one for software inertia.
Old programs never die.  They just... never die.

- Mike Hawley

reid (11/16/82)

I think that this newsgroup is ridiculous unless it is taken seriously, which
it is not, apparently.  In any other respects, it is a waste of time and
money.  There should be reassurance for anybody who might actually be 
contemplating suicide that he/she might find support here.  It seems to me
that he/she would first be ridiculed and taken for a jokester....  Then
what?

Glenn Reid

z (11/16/82)

Why was this group removed???  The net would be totally DEAD without
this group!!!

z (11/19/82)

Net.suicide has had some very serious discussions in the past, including
discussions about the ethics of suicide, death in general, life after
death, and reincarnation.  I think it has the potential for future
serious discussions along those lines as well, and I'm sure that at some
point they will occur.  In the mean time, I find nothing wrong with a
few attempts at humor in this newsgroup; in fact, I find many of them
quite refreshing.

	Steve Zimmerman
	decvax!cca!z
	z@cca-unix

jhh (12/02/82)

An open letter to pyuxmm!netnews:

Just because you don't like this newsgroup is no reason to keep
on killing it.  Use the `u' or `n' key.  If you must kill
newsgroups, kill the useless ones like net.triangle.  At least
this newsgroup provides a modicum of entertainment which
is probably best kept away from the sensitive readers of net.jokes.
I don't remove net.sf-lovers because I'm not a sci-fi fan,
don't remove net.suicide because you don't like it, at least
not without some discussion.  Perhaps one day you will wish you
had saved some of the painless ways of killing yourself mentioned
in this newsgroup.

				Acidly yours,
				John Haller