weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu (Obnoxious Math Grad Student) (06/24/88)
In article <5132@dasys1.UUCP>, tneff@dasys1 (Tom Neff) writes: > Kill files >obviously have their place to handle uninteresting topics, but using them >to *blinker* oneself from views or attitudes one dislikes is the height of >net.folly. I have zero objection to being in anyone's KILL file. In fact, I encour- age it. I use them extensively. It's the only way to read Usenet. And Werner is not "hiding" from anything--he merely has better things to do with his reading time. Werner and I exchanged a little e-mail on the topic--he wanted me to stop. I got mail from others asking me to continue. Werner voted YES on c.w, btw. > If Herr Uhrig has an enemies list, I demand inclusion. It's not an enemies list. It's merely a boredom list. Although I find it strange that he didn't put "women" in his KILL file. I've said it before and I'll say it again: newsgroups and Usenet itself are driven by reader *interest*. Not by what they *ought* to be inter- ested in. Not by what "society" says the correct topic *ought* to be. Only by what the readers are actually interested in. ucbvax!garnet!weemba Matthew P Wiener/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720
tjw@cisunx.UUCP (TJ Wood WA3VQJ) (06/25/88)
In article <11311@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu (Obnoxious Math Grad Student) writes: > >I have zero objection to being in anyone's KILL file. In fact, I encour- >age it. I use them extensively. It's the only way to read Usenet. And I agree. Proper use of KILL files can even make soc.men and soc.women interesting. The invention of KILL files is the neatest thing since "sliced bread". I have only 1 word in my KILL file for this group and I've missed almost all of this net.rarebit stuff. With 2 words, I'll miss it all. Terry -- (UUCP) {decwrl!allegra,bellcore,cadre,psuvax1}!pitt!cisunx!cisvms!tjw (BITNET) TJW@PITTVMS (Internet) tjw%vms.cis.pittsburgh.edu@vb.cc.cmu.edu (CC-Net) CISVMS::TJW