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  1. Newsgroups: alt.config
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!news.mtholyoke.edu!news.amherst.edu!twpierce
  3. From: twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce)
  4. Subject: Re: now batting (Was Babe Ruth was a control-weenie)
  5. Message-ID: <C1Hus6.vD@unix.amherst.edu>
  6. Organization: Elitist Usenet Administrators, Stuff and Nonsense Division
  7. References: <2518@blue.cis.pitt.edu> <C1G3Dw.CD1@unix.amherst.edu> <2556@blue.cis.pitt.edu>
  8. Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 03:52:54 GMT
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  10.  
  11. In article <2556@blue.cis.pitt.edu> tjw@vms.cis.pitt.edu writes:
  12.  
  13. >In article <C1G3Dw.CD1@unix.amherst.edu>, twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce) writes:
  14. >
  15. >> In article <2518@blue.cis.pitt.edu> tjw@vms.cis.pitt.edu writes:
  16. >
  17. >>>If you do, you must understand by now that control-weenies aren't looked
  18. >>>upon favorably.  That's WHY there IS an ALTnet.
  19. >>
  20. >> Is that also why alt receives such lower propagation than Usenet?
  21. >
  22. >Possibly.  But remember that quantity doesn't imply quality.  Or vise-versa.
  23.  
  24. Sure.  But quality isn't the issue -- popularity is.  If
  25. control-weenies aren't popular, anarchists must be considered even
  26. less desirable.
  27.  
  28. -- 
  29. ____ Tim Pierce                / 
  30. \  / twpierce@unix.amherst.edu /               Rocks say goodbye.
  31.  \/ (BITnet: TWPIERCE@AMHERST) / 
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