greg@phoenix (greg Nowak) (12/08/89)
>In article <122@rayssd.ray.com>, gmp@rayssd.ray.com (Gregory M. Paris) writes: > Some of you may be aware that a few easily amused people think it's funny to > start up cross-posting wars between talk.bizarre and other groups. I'm aware of it. I wish they'd leave talk.bizarre alone. > beginning of these wars is that somebody posts an outrageous article to > talk.bizarre and cross-posts it to the victim group. Naive readers of the > victim group follow up to the article and the war begins. Actually, it's more common that readers of 'startrek and rec.humor for whom "bizarre" is a vocabulary word crosspost to talk.bizarre without even being a reader of the group. Then a few readers of talk.bizarre send polite notes back to the alleged "victim" group, pointing out that, eg, light bulb jokes do not belong in talk.bizarre. Readers of the victim group reply to these polite notes with "WE'LL POST WHEREVER WE GODAMM (sic) PLEASE!!!!!". > Personally, I'd have no problem with the existence of talk.bizarre if it > wasn't for this type of blatantly offensive behavior on the part of some > talk.bizarre posters. If they'd just keep to themselves, everybody would > be happy. Unfortunately, this is not the case. The same applies in spades to readers of rec.humor and 'startrek. > My proposal is this: let's quit propagating talk.bizarre. Why not do the same to 'humor or 'startrek? They have higher volume. rutgers!phoenix.princeton.edu!greg Gregory A Nowak/Phoenix Gang/Princeton NJ "Most news readers are not UNIX sophisticates and do not have the capability of using KILL files or even know that such a thing is possible." -- Tim Maroney
jeffm@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Jeff Medcalf) (12/08/89)
In article <12023@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> greg@phoenix (greg Nowak) writes: > >[drivel deleted] >rutgers!phoenix.princeton.edu!greg Gregory A Nowak/Phoenix Gang/Princeton NJ > "Most news readers are not UNIX sophisticates and do not have the > capability of using KILL files or even know that such a thing is > possible." -- Tim Maroney Anyone who quotes Tim Maroney in their .signature, even a relatively benign quote, deserves to be dipped in scalding oil until they see the error of their ways. -- Jeff Medcalf jeffm@uokmax.{uucp|ecn.uoknor.edu} !chinet!uokmax!jeffm BoB smokes *my* pipe! We carry in our hearts the true country... In 1869, the waffle iron was invented, thus solving the annoying tendency of waffles to wrinkle in the dryer. No new tale to tell.