webber@brandx.rutgers.edu.UUCP (11/30/87)
In article <4758@iucs.UUCP>, cdaf@iucs.UUCP (Charles A. Daffinger) writes: > You people have your own newsgroup now. Since the quibbling is about > stuff which only the readers of your newsgroup are interested in, > THEN TAKE IT THERE, AND DON'T COME BACK TIL YOU'VE FLAMED EACH OTHER > CRISPY ENOUGH TO COME TO A CONSENSUS! If you want to flame, go to alt.flame, for pete's sake, that is what it was made for! > Remember, you now have your own newsgroup. For those who cannot read > clearly, it's s-o-c-.-c-u-l-t-u-r-e-.-c-h-i-n-a. NOW GO USE IT! > Just because you don't like the name doesn't mean you can't use it. ABSOLUTELY WRONG. All a news group is is its name, so if people don't like the name, they should find 100 people who like the same name they do and form a new one. Clearly they should not change the name of an existing group, since there were already 100 people who liked that one. All of this stuff about name change is quite appropriate to news.groups. (Except the flames which belong in alt.flame -- at least they should have been cross-posted there.) ------- BOB (webber@athos.rutgers.edu ; rutgers!athos.rutgers.edu!webber) P.S., It is perfectly alright to post messages to news.groups that contain the word ``vote'' in them. Just realize that they don't ``count'' as votes, but are merely recieved as expressions of opinion. Also realize that along with spelling flamers there will always be pseudo-propriety flamers who will mis-understand and think that just because a vote posted to news.groups doesn't count as a vote, that it shouldn't be posted there. Also realize that if all you have to say is ``yes'' or ``no'' then most people are going to find your posting boring and develope a low opinion of you as a poster -- c'est la vie. [If you are having trouble finding a mail path, ask your local sys admin, use comp.mail.misc or soc.net-people, or mail to a neighboring net wizard (as recommended in the Guide to Usenet). Remember, you have plenty of time to register your vote.] P.P.S. Of course, if you have a multi-line signature file as well, then expect to recieve copies of the Guide to Usenet in your mail, as you obviously don't know a hawk from a handsaw. P.P.P.S. If you read this far, you must really be bored. Quit goofing off and see if you can't improve the strategy in the recently posted Gnu chess program.