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- Subject: Re: No, don't (Was: Re: eschew moderated alt newsgroups)
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- Date: 26 Jan 93 03:52:35 GMT
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- In article <C186BK.CzI@rahul.net>, phil@rahul.net (Phil Gustafson) writes:
-
- > Jonathan Kamens has done a fine job with
- > news.answers, and had provided a valuable service to the net. A year or so
- > ago, he was faced with a bumptious former FAQmeister of AFU who wanted to
- > call the afu archive jik-dik. Or maybe jik-dick.
-
- > Now, in five minutes, he could have resolved this matter politely:
-
- > I believe that afu-faq is a more appropriate name for the archive.
-
- > Or, if he were grouchier:
-
- > I believe that afu-faq is a more appropriate name for the archive, asshole.
-
- > Or, if he wished to earn the hearts of afu-ers everywhere (and there are
- > more than 40,000 of us):
-
- > The archive is called peter-pooter. Live with it.
-
- "This is exactly right" (which sounds like an AFU motto). I think even PETER
- would have gotten a good chuckle from such a reply.
-
-
- > People have called Jon "stuffy" and "anal", and this may be true. This
- > is why we post to afu and he doesn't.
-
- Yes, I saw those postings too. This is, of course, what Peter was trying to
- say a year ago when he posted his "JIK-DIK" FAQ. Yes, it was obnoxious. No
- one will deny that. But Peter's point was that this is ONLY the net and
- lightening up here never hurts.
-
- All of us have been, at one time or another, "stuffy". Every once in a while
- we need to step back and smell the packets, I suppose.
-
- My point in all of this is to say that if Mr JIK wants to be the Grand Poohbah
- of alt.answers, that's fine by me. Nobody else has volunteered to do it and
- it's not likely that anyone else will. But, more than likely, another group,
- alt.answers.d, will spring up; this being ALT, someone will newgroup it.
- We don' nee' no steekeen' votes! (or badges!) here on ALT.
-
- If such a group is not conducive to the operation of alt.answers, this had
- best be stated right now.
-
- >But the afu FAQ is a valuable
- > resource, and deserves news.answers, and it's sad that a silly tiff
- > has kept it out.
-
- I don't know the status of the AFU FAQ. Being a "free thinker" I never look
- for spoon-fed answers (here on the Final Frontier of ALT ;-)
-
- Terry
-