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- From: jal41820@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Smiley)
- Subject: Re: alt.fan.cows ... or perhaps alt.humor.ascii-art
- References: <1993Jan1.212033.25526@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1993Jan2.032344.1157@news.uiowa.edu> <C094IC.MFF@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1993Jan3.003729.14577@news.uiowa.edu>
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- Sender: usenet@news.cso.uiuc.edu (Net Noise owner)
- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 01:38:41 GMT
- Keywords: hi tim
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- durrell@pinball.arcade.uiowa.edu (Bryant Durrell) writes:
- :)In article <C094IC.MFF@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jal41820@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Smiley) w
- :)either. Again -- Joel is either playing another joke or dumb.
-
- In either case, generating this much traffic about his past isn't accomplishing
- anything, since he's done it before and I'm sure someone has said something
- about it then, too. Personally, I'd just put it in a kill file and be done
- with it, but it's already changed subject lines three times.
-
- :)>And in response I see countless numbers of people basically
- :)>telling him to go away. Whatever he may have done in the past, please quit
- :)>whining about it. If he's serious, which he's said that he is, then serious
- :)>discussion is warrented. Whining won't help.
-
- :)If he's serious, given his track record, he's going to have to
- :)prove himself before people will take him seriously. This is a
- :)valid attitude. If I flunk out of university because I don't
- :)take it seriously, they're going to be less likely to let me in
- :)again. Past actions count.
-
- Then do what the university would do. Listen to what he has to say. If you
- don't find him serious enough, ignore it. If you do, then discuss it.
- Eventually, I'd bet a university would stop replying to a constant non-serious
- request for admission, or at least just bounce a form letter each time and
- be done with it.
-
- :)>If this is another joke, the
- :)>fact that he's done it before means he'll do it again, and whining about it
- :)>won't help.
-
- :)True enough. It's worth making readership aware of his past
- :)record, but I think that's been done adequately.
-
- Unfortunately on usenet, everyone has this need to say what they want to
- say, even if it's been said thirty times already. :)
-
- :)>The key point here is that either way, whining about it won't
- :)>help. So if you insist on bothering the readership of two gropus, could you a
- :)>least please have a serious discussion about the proposed group and not about
- :)>Joel? Thank you.
-
- :)Uh, yeah, I know I'm a real annoyance and I'm sure these two
-
- I never said you were an annoyance. Just the overdiscussion. :)
-
- :)cows. Look, I don't think people who propose groups as a joke
- :)should be listened to.
-
- In that case, just don't listen, then. Or say anything back. That's all
- I'm saying.
-
- :)Joke alt groups are part of the reason
- :)so many sites don't get the useful alt groups. Therefore, I
-
- True, but I doubt there are any admins ready to cancel alt groups if one
- more silly one is created. I'd assume most make that decission when initially
- setting things up, and that nothing much is gonna change about it without a
- major change in the way news is run.
-
- :)think Joel's motivations *are* fit topic for discussion. We
- :)really don't need another group that'll serve no purpose but
- :)another place for Joel to cross-post.
-
- Ahh, but this is the first mention of anything of the sort. Whether Joel
- would use it for just cross-posting or not, an ascii-art group *actually*
- isn't all that bad of an idea...
-
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