carl@aoa.UUCP (Carl Witthoft) (09/03/85)
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I've been requested by possibly paranoiacs to post here and say
"save net.bizarre!" The standard reasons for killing it seem to be:
1) It's stupid
2) It's not very bizarre
3) It generates tons of files
My responses are:
1) So what? Lots of the stuff in net.physics, net.bio, net.legal,
net.consumers, net.jokes are pretty stupid too.
Net. bizarre is at least clean and enjoyable. Contrast this with
net.flame (obnoxious, totally non-factual, and moronic), net.jokes
(boring), and the interminable arguments about stuff like parapsychology,
radar detectors being a constitutional right, or CIA labs building
bugs to kill all the blacks, and you'll see that net.bizarre is at
least self-consistent.
2) Bizarre is as bizarre does. Or: depends on your background.
3) So do many other groups, without any guarantee of quality/quantity
ratio exceeding 5%. If this is to be a serious usenet, then why not
kill ALL groups that don't guarantee to improve corporate productivity?
If not, why not rate groups directly by their volume?
Please respond by mail--I dont read this group often.
Darwin's Dad (Carl Witthoft)
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