Why not net.music.gdead too? Why pick on us shy people?

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4 total messages Started by jj Fri, 19 Sep 1986 02:11

#521

Author: jj
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1986 02:11

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First, let me finish my biscuit, I am going to bloody well
FLAME, and I need help with my shyness!


Two questions:
	1)  As other writers have asked, why should wobegonians
have to deal with the likes of the rich part of the net, and 
all the brash, mean, thrashing clamor that abounds elsewhere?  Why should
the one genteel group of the net be eliminated? Is it perhaps that the
mere gentility threatens the brash, rude millions?

	2)  Net.music.gdead is, while a bit less genteel, usually
laid-back and mostly pleasant.  It serves much the same purpose as
net.wobegon, so why not remove it as well, and eliminate ALL type 'B's
from the net?   After all, it is written -- the meek will inheret the
earth, but who will want it?

Perhaps the net is intended only for hurried, aggressive, antagonistic
type 'A's like the folks who would remove wobegon.  If so, that should
be stated in the charter.  How about a line to the effect:
	"Politeness, kind behavior, and meaningful, mutually satisfying
discussion are not appropriate for USENET.  It is considered improprietous
to show any propriety in one's postings.  It is understood that net.flame
was removed because it was desired that all groups be flame-bearing.
Such kind behavior as was evidenced in the justifiably removed net.wobegon
will NOT be tolerated."


(Lest we forget, it was JJ himself who was the prime agent and instigator
of the partial demise of net.flame.  At this time, JJ thinks he was
snookered.  Flame yet lives, but wobegon will die.  While this is clearly
a victory for anal-yuppie virtrue, it seems to forget one of the prime
reasons for netnews, namely the weal of nutnoise's readers.)


Seriously, flame was a huge volume group that was out of control.
Even cbosgd appears to continue to carry it.  Wobegon was small,
quiet, happy, and offended no one, other than those whose sense of
order cannot tolerate a small oasis of happiness in a sea of discontent.
I think that the mere suggestion of wobegon's removal shows the depth of
administrator unhappiness, and perhaps a desire that the net become
so unpleasant that it will go away forever.

Well, Watson, it's merely a symptom, and not the disease itself.
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Re: Why not net.music.gdead too? Why pick on us shy people?

#522

Author: Chris Redmond
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1986 13:53

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>
>Perhaps the net is intended only for hurried, aggressive, antagonistic
>type 'A's like the folks who would remove wobegon.  If so, that should
>be stated in the charter.  How about a line to the effect:
>	"Politeness, kind behavior, and meaningful, mutually satisfying
>discussion are not appropriate for USENET.  It is considered improprietous
>to show any propriety in one's postings.  It is understood that net.flame
>was removed because it was desired that all groups be flame-bearing.
>Such kind behavior as was evidenced in the justifiably removed net.wobegon
>will NOT be tolerated."
>

For crying out loud, will somebody volunteer to start a mailing list,
instead of just lamenting about the demise of the net group?  For a
gang with this low a level of discussion, a mailing list would be
better, anyway.

Re: Why pick on us shy people?

#552

Author: Joseph S. D. Yao
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1986 04:19

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In article <3257@watmath.UUCP> credmond@watmath.UUCP (Chris Redmond) writes:
[some material without attribution]
>For crying out loud, will somebody volunteer to start a mailing list,
>instead of just lamenting about the demise of the net group?  For a
>gang with this low a level of discussion, a mailing list would be
>better, anyway.

OK, I don't want to be the one to do this, since I'm not an
outgoing type, and I don't have a heckuva lot of time; but
if you're interested in a mail.wobegon, send mail to
{seismo,decuac,dtix.arpa,avatar,et al.}!hadron!wobegon-request.
If enough arrives, I'll start it as hadron!wobegon.  Assuming
I have time and I don't chicken out first.		[;-}]
-- 

	Joe Yao		hadron!jsdy@seismo.{CSS.GOV,ARPA,UUCP}
			jsdy@hadron.COM (not yet domainised)

Re: Why not net.music.gdead too? Why pick on us shy people?

#528

Author: Scott Dorsey
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 1986 20:39

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In article <6088@alice.uUCp> jj@alice.UUCP writes:
>Seriously, flame was a huge volume group that was out of control.
>Even cbosgd appears to continue to carry it.  Wobegon was small,
>quiet, happy, and offended no one, other than those whose sense of
>order cannot tolerate a small oasis of happiness in a sea of discontent.

   I am forced to speak up.  Many of my friends, two shy to reply to
your message, read this newsgroup exclusively, and are very upset that
news has started appearing here.  They would prefer that this newsgroup
go back to the "*** 0 messgaes in Net.Wobegon" that it once was.


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