From: tjw@vms.cis.pitt.edu
Newsgroups: alt.config,alt.folklore.urban
Subject: ALT.ANSWERS -- The Assault on the Traditional Family Values!!!
Summary: Get a life, Mr. Quayle
Keywords: Sheesh!  You monkeyboys take life far too seriously -- J. Worfin
Date: 8 Jan 93 22:59:32 GMT
Reply-To: tjw+@pitt.edu
Followup-To: alt.config
Organization: University of Pittsburgh


Readers of AFU take note:

In article <1ijuslINN41j@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> jik@athena.mit.edu
(Jonathan I. Kamens), "The JIKmeister" writes:

>In article <1993Jan8.062621.3290@netcom.com>, jef@netcom.com (Jef Poskanzer) writes:
>|> I used to participate in news.answers, but I stopped after Jonathan
>|> tried to exert prior restraint on the content, not form, of a posting.

>This is a lie.

>|> It's not just me, either, he has done the same to others.

>As is this.

Well, now that we have your attention... :-P

Seriously, is an "alt.answers" really a "good idea" for alt?  Is having a
fellow dubbed "jik-dick" and voted the "least likely to get the joke" by the
readers of AFU the right man for the job?  (I think he's even in the AFU FAQ
with this distinction or at least he WAS when PETER did the FAQ.).

And what can you say about a person who sets the followup line "to poster"
and doesn't mention it in their posting?  What kind of a person would do
*that*!?!  A USENETer!  That's who!  One of those "CFD/STRAW POLL/CVF/Flame
The Vote" types!  Yes, siree, sir!  A REPUBLICAN type if ever you saw one!

Do we free-thinking, ALTNETTERs really WANT an alt.answers?  Do we need
someone TELLIN' US what the "right" answer is?  What will happen to man's
quest for knowledge?  With apologies to Bill Shatner and his wife Majel (who
only got her job on STAR TREK 'cause she was married to Bill Shatner) ALT is
the "Final Frontier" of the net.  If we make alt.answers, how many wimpy
types will now tell us we must "Go Boldly" instead of "Boldy Going" where
"no MAN has gone before"?  No sir!  Answers like that we DON'T need!

Yes, my friends, this "alt.answers" smacks of an assault on "Truth, Justice
and the Armenian Way"!  First they kill Superman.  Now they try to foist off
alt.answers and the backbone cabal upon us.  Where will it all end?


>Jef's accusations were beaten quite soundly to death on the faq-maintainers
>mailing list.  

But Bruce Becker doesn't like Jef as evidenced by the many "Bruce-like"
forgeries done in his name.  This alone is reason enough to side with Jef in
a flame war.

>If anyone is truely interested in the background behind them,
>feel free to send me E-mail and I will dredge the entire conversation up out of
>my faq-maintainers archive and mail it to you.  

And look at this.  This man archives FLAME WARS and offers to e-mail it to
you!  Sheesh (or Furrfu as they say in AFU), I'd sooner have Craig Shergold's
mail forwarded to me in triplicate than read "yesterday's" flame war!  No
sir, this jik fellow doesn't seem to have the "alt" spirit, except for maybe
the alt.flame spirit (which is also know as the "dark side" of the FORCE).

>I will not, however, waste the
>net's resources by flaming about it any further in this newsgroup (or any
>other).

Promises, promises!

>If enough people (let's say, five) feel that there is a need, I am quite
>willing to conduct a straw poll to determine if there is significant opposition
>to my moderating alt.answers.  I am confident of what the result would be.

STRAW POLL!  FURRFU, and Double Sheesh!  This CLEARLY shows that jik is NOT
an ALT sort of guy.  No sir!  As Bogart and Churchill never said in
"Treasure of the Sierra Madres":

        "Straw Poll?  We don' nee' no steenkeen STRAW POLL".


But other than that, I think he'd work out just fine.

Terry "But other than that Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?" Wood

:-) * 10^500 for the humor (and spelling) impaired.