Newsgroups, Sternlight-bashing and screaming children
Bill Stewart
stewab at us0750tb.oakland.NCR.COM
Wed Nov 10 19:14:03 PST 1993
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From: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart at pleasantonca.ncr.com>
Location: Pleasanton District
To: cypherpunks at toad.com
Location: cyberspace
Subject: Newsgroups, Sternlight-bashing and screaming children
I consider the Sternlight-bashing suggestions to be unreasonable;
Sternlight may rave from a warped, pro-government viewpoint,
but he is capable of carrying on civilized conversations, even when
he's (continually) grinding the same axe. The coffee-house analogy
is a very good one, and there *is* occasionally a screaming-children
problem on usenet; I assumed the original poster was referring more to
the perpetual-newbie types rather than to the newly arrived,
chronologically-deficient college students, most of whom are either
quiet, productive, or both (though a college student and the author
apparently felt otherwise :-)
I still prefer having this as a mailing
list, in spite of the volume; I can read sci.crypt when I want to,
though I'll probably have to get a netcom account rather than
keep telnetting into my old system now that I've moved.
Thanks; Bill
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