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Once again, trimming bogus us.* groups.

In article <yliud36i0u.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu>,
Russ Allbery  <rra@stanford.edu> wrote:
>In us.config, joshua geller <dclxvi@best.com> writes:

>> Spaf is still around, you know.

>I think spaf has decided that he has better things to do with his time
>than argue about Usenet government models, though.  And more power to him.
>He put up with enough for any one lifetime.

Sure, sure.

But he's still around, you know? I bet he still has the same email
address, even.

>> So is Richard Sexton.

>Yes, but there isn't any us.aquaria, 

Are you sure?

>                                     so it's safe to assume that he's not
>around here at the moment.  :)

He's always closer than you think.

>> She makes a lot of rules for other people. She seems to be the type of
>> person who enjoys doing such things.  In other words, she is absolutely
>> not a person who should be responsible for shaping the structure of
>> hierarchical netnews.

>Except that she was willing to try in a situation where everyone else
>threw up their hands and said "oh well" or "I don't have enough
>time."

Too damn bad that what she's trying to do doesn't need to be done.

She should maybe find a constructive outlet for her energies.

>The growing tendency towards rules, rather than guidelines and assumptions
>that people will be rational and use common sense, is a systemic disease,
>I'm afraid, not specific to any particular section of Usenet.

Russ, I hate to have to be the one to tell you this, what with you
being a Stanford professor and all, but you're full of shit.

If you'd like to talk about this in person, I'd be more than happy
to. Drop me an email and we'll get together.

j.