🚀 go-pugleaf

> Tim Thompson [cbosgd!tgt] wrote earlier:
> [...] If no update is received, these sites will no longer exist.  When
> this happens, I'll be sure to make a posting [...] so that the SA's out
> there will know to remove all links to the sites that are removed.

In article <235@sbcs.UUCP> root@sbcs.UUCP (Root, aka Rick Spanbauer) replies:
> I'm not one of the affected sites, but it seems to me that Tim's ramblings
> are reminiscent in tone to those of a petty dictator in some banana republic.
> [...]  What's your opinion?

	My opinion is that Rick is over reacting.  Why is it that everytime
somebody tries to do something useful, they get shot down?  Rick Adams says
"I'm willing to run a Usenet backbone, but I can't afford to carry all the
crap on net.abortion" and people cry "A backbone needs a spine!"  Gene
Spafford tries to keep people from running rampant with newgroups and
people cry "Fascist!"  Tim Thompson tries to get his part of the Usenet map
up to date and people cry "Dictator!"  Come on people, give these guys a
break.

	A fairly small bunch of people put a lot of time and effort into
getting the Usenet map organized and trying to keep it up to date.  Because
they do, I don't have to look in a crystal ball or muck around with goat
entrails to find a path to someplace I've never heard of.  If all I have to
do to help these guys out is send in a new map entry a couple of times a
year, that seems like a pretty damn impressive return on my investment.
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