meo@stiatl.UUCP (Miles O'Neal) (01/04/90)
In article <283@amix.commodore.com> ag@amix.commodore.com (Keith Gabryelski) writes: (Subject: Most prolific non-sentient poster award.) |This messages was posted 79 separate times to almost that many |newsgroups (message ids below) with out the aid of crostposting or an |ounce of intelligence by its author. ... |rec.arts.startrek Message-ID: <ipgfkp3gi@tmsoft.uucp> ... Talk.bizarre was NOT included. This, weighed in with the fact that ras goes to far more sites, and has a much higher volume, multiplied by a higher cost per reader, not to mention its detrimental effect on our youth, leads me to conclude that to avoid the imminent death of the net, we need to delete ras from the heirarchy. If this doesn't make it, I implore all sysadmins to stop feeding it downstream. If we don't do this, please realize the CIA and US army may get involved. Do you really want this? Discussion period open. -Miles DISCLAIMER: just ignore me and maybe I'll mutate.
ag@amix.commodore.com (Keith Gabryelski) (01/05/90)
In article <8424@stiatl.UUCP> meo@stiatl.UUCP (Miles O'Neal) writes: >Talk.bizarre was NOT included. This, weighed in with the fact that >ras goes to far more sites, and has a much higher volume, multiplied >by a higher cost per reader, not to mention its detrimental effect on >our youth, leads me to conclude that to avoid the imminent death of >the net, we need to delete ras from the heirarchy. If this doesn't >make it, I implore all sysadmins to stop feeding it downstream. As per a vote held 2 weeks ago, Chuq sent out a control message for an lngroup for talk.bizarre and rec.arts.startrek (message id: <1416@zamboni.apple.com>) since in the past year or so it has become evident that these two are the exact same group (or atleast the same people post in these two groups and most posting are crostposted). As is the case with lngroups. talk.bizarre and rec.art.startrek should now share the same spool directory and one (talk.bizarre as the vote determined) will be removed in about two more weeks once the net is reasonably sure that the lngroup was propagated to all sites and appropriate messures have been taken to handle the talk.bizarre rmgroup. Pax, Keith -- ag@amix.commodore.com Keith Gabryelski ...!cbmvax!amix!ag