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- From: dougmc@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Doug McLaren)
- Newsgroups: alt.irc.corruption,talk.bizarre,alt.alien.visitors
- Subject: Re: What's the purpose of this newsgroup?
- Message-ID: <83068@ut-emx.uucp>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 09:23:08 GMT
- References: <1992Nov1.233718.20244@zip.eecs.umich.edu> <002519m.27.720729330@ace.acadiau.ca> <SCOTT.92Nov3100948@sfi.santafe.edu>
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- In article <SCOTT.92Nov3100948@sfi.santafe.edu> scott@sfi.santafe.edu (Scott D. Yelich) writes:
- >
- >What's the purpose? You can talk here. You can express your opinion.
-
- But does anybody acutally read it? If I wanted to express my opinion to
- myself, why get the Internet involved? :) ( and Scott - why cross post
- to misc.test? If people thing *bots* are insincere, then these "Your post
- has been received by kalamazoo.way.the.hell.far.away.bfe" messages that
- fill your mailbox are downright cold. :) (if you really like autogreets,
- post a message to misc.test and alt.test called 'Test my mailbox for me!" :)
-
- >Here, if someone doesn't want to read your message[s], they can ignore
- >you. In IRC, you are subject to /kick, /kill and /mode +b and /squit
- >if your opinion rubs someone the wrong way. You could try mailing
- >lists, but hey, but they're controlled and possibly censored.
-
- Here, you're subject to KILL files (which admittedly don't have much impact
- on you ...) And what's to stop the really upset person from forging a
- cancel for your posts? (I've seen automatic cancels sent out for any
- post from a certain user@host ...)
-
- And you don't think usenet is ever censored? NOT! (though admittedly,
- it's much easier to censor a mailing list ...)
-
- >I'd suggest sticking with alt.irc.corruption. It has very low bandwidth
- >and no one controls it-- two things that are not true for IRC.
-
- Oh ... Usenet is certainly, most definately controlled. alt.irc.corruption
- itself may not be, but then again, neither would your own +pstim channel.
- Usenet is just controlled by people who don't let politics get into the
- fray, or if they do, they generally don't let it adversly affect the quality
- of the service provided. Unlike irc ...
-
-
-
- --
- ----------------------- \ Confucius might have once said:
- Doug McLaren, \ AMAZING BUT TRUE ... There is so much sand in
- DemoN on IRC \ Northern Africa that if it were spread out it
- dougmc@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu \ would completely cover the Sahara Desert.
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