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In article <1992Oct12.112510@mccall.com> tp@mccall.com (Terry Poot) writes:

>In article <1992Oct8.160442.23928@netcom.com>, jef@netcom.com (Jef Poskanzer)
>writes:
>
>>- It's not a matter of opinion, it's a matter of right and wrong.
>>  I realize that some people don't understand the difference, but
>>  most do.
>
>It is a matter of opinion over right and wrong. Given that alt has no arbiter of
>right and wrong, even by popular consensus, differences of opinion are possible.
>Which part of this do you reject?

That alt has no arbiter of right and wrong, even by popular consensus.
There is an understanding (granted, a very general and loosely defined
one) among news administrators regarding which alt groups are
"properly" created and which ones are not.  For example, the arguments
in favor of the existence of alt.graphics usually run along the lines
of "nobody cares about alt" or "anyone can create an alt group at any
time."  The attitude of apathy, I think, is self-defeating.

>What I was referring to is
>the annoyance of receiving email from my news system giving me the blow-by-blow
>on your war with the forger. The last thing any news admin (or in this case,
>every news admin) needs is more annoyance.

I can cope with receiving the occasional rmgroup/newgroup pair in my
mailbox.  It, at least, is regular, unlike the performance of tin,
which I consider a major grievance. :-)  alt.graphics is really a drop
in the bucket.

>You are both guilty of sending out
>messages that annoy large numbers of news admins with no consideration for our
>feelings in the matter.

Whine.  Jef *could* put "becker" in the Path message for his rmgroup
messages to hide their existence from the guilty party, presumably
resulting in the lack of a following newgroup.  Nevertheless, this is
really out of proportion with the situation we're talking about.

Imminent death of alt.graphics predicted, film at 11 ....

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