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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 16:52:00 CDT
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- From: Fred Kemp <YKFOK@TTACS.BITNET>
- Subject: Crackdown on MBU
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- Megabuds,
-
- Now is the time for my annual "MBU is a MESS" message.
- Russell Hunt and Joel Nydahl are right; it is just terrible
- that so much personal, off-the-subject, chatter occurs on
- this list. I mean this personally: nobody's teeth have
- ground down further than mine because of the last three
- years of MBU.
-
- BUT, I'll sacrifice what's left of my teeth before I make
- anybody on this list worry about saying what he or she feels
- like saying. Maybe it's just my personal weakness. I enjoy
- hearing about births and heavy snowfalls and the two or
- three hundred people who can't seem to get through to Steve
- North (I think he's at some obscure university in the northeast).
- MBU began as quips and chatter and the freedom to be stupid
- nationally. I have this enduring belief that computers and
- networks mean freedom, in spite of intelligent arguments to
- the contrary, and so in this one little corner of the world
- where I can call myself "boss" (if only in the mirror), I
- would like to declare that, as always, on MBU anything goes.
-
- However, I do hope that what Russell and Joel said might
- possibly impress some people every so slightly to think
- about going the personal route rather than posting to the
- list. But, on the other hand, if it's not clearly personal,
- then send it to MBU. Somebody somewhere's going to groove
- on it, and that seems good enough to me. Like they say
- about pornography on TV, "you can always turn the channel."
- (Yeah, but who really CAN?)
-
- If what MBU was doing didn't make people happy, it wouldn't
- succeed. But it continues as a strange attractor, pulling
- in a wide (and often odd) variety of people who seem to like
- what is going on. I would say at this point that if
- somebody wants to say something to MBU, then they should
- just do it. In so doing, of course, they just might destroy
- their career and . . . .oh, what the heck. MBU is (or
- should be) non-judgemental (did I mispell that word?) (did I
- misspell mispell?) Fred Kemp, the presumed listowner of MBU
-