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- From: phone@coombs.anu.edu.au (matthew green)
- Newsgroups: alt.irc
- Subject: Re: patriot.mit.edu (vanity server alert)
- Message-ID: <phone.724864214@coombs>
- Date: 20 Dec 92 15:10:14 GMT
- References: <1992Dec11.144428.13598@news.ysu.edu> <avalon.724852477@coombs>
- Organization: Australian National University
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- avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au (Darren Reed) writes:
-
- >doug@cc.ysu.edu (Doug Sewell) writes:
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- >>It appears that a new vanity server, patriot.mit.edu, has just popped up.
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- >>The server-op (as listed by /admin) was sending annoying msgs to an
- >>acquaintance of mine, and when he objected, he was /kill'd.
-
- >>Who the hell gives these guys C/N lines ?
-
- >>Doug, who says "death to vanity servers" and wonders how many of the
- >>150-or-so servers are just that...
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- >Well, if it dropped to 100 servers, I doubt that the number of users on
- >IRC would drop by a third...maybe the number of opers would drop by
- >even more...
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- I was thinking of *removing* at least 100 servers.. and getting the
- "users" that they are about to have, seeing that finals are almost
- over and everyone is going home, etc... (blah) .. to use other
- servers...
-
- >avalon
-
- >say no to things that are trendy to say no to.
-
- say NO to Avapreaching... :)
-