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- From: ksdavis@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Karleenus Schwartz Davis)
- Subject: Re: Expansion of alt.fan.rush-limbaugh proposed
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 02:41:55 GMT
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- twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce) writes:
- >Mike's point is that this is a fatalist and self-defeating attitude.
-
- In general, you're right. But in this case, where they're thinking
- of splitting alt.fan.rush-limbaugh into subgroups, I think there's
- justification to my point that they leave the *.politics discussion in
- alt.fan.rush-limbaugh but go ahead with the creation of the others.
- Perhaps my perception of alt-as-eternal is fatalist, but using the
- facts of the current situation to help avoid one of the well-known
- problems of alt is useful in this case. There's going to be nothing
- left for alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, and since the core of his attraction
- is his politics, why waste time essentially renaming it?
-
- Of course, if I were a sysadmin, I'd use the "is this reasonable"
- method for dealing with newgroups and rmgroups, but the point is moot.
- I'm not, and I have no control mine or your systems. However, I can
- advise the people who want these groups to step lightly around this
- problem by simply avoiding the need to rmgroup alt.fan.rush-limbaugh
- by specifically delineating what part of the discussion should stay
- there -- in my opinion, that'd be the *.politics part.
-
- But, for your convenience, I'll remove the sentence "rmgroups don't
- work in alt" from my list of accepted things to say in public.
-
- -sz
-