From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc
Subject: Re: VIDIOT! Get a clue!
Date: 26 Sep 92 03:15:13 GMT
Reply-To: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Organization: Vidiot's Hangout

In article <1992Sep25.001235.1@camins.camosun.bc.ca> alumni106@camins.camosun.bc.ca (Max Sterling) writes:
<In article <4153@vidiot.UUCP>, brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
<
<> No, you get a clue.  This newsgroup is not here for your personal pleasure.
<> If you don't like the traffic in the other groups, tough.  You can't create
<> a group just for yourself and a few others.
<
<Excuse me? I was under the impression that this was an existing group. 
<We're not "creating" it, it's already been created for us, and we're 
<using it. If it's not supposed to exist, would you mind explaining WHY 
<it's not supposed to exist? Don't just say "because it was 'rmgrouped'", 
<whatever the hell THAT is. Would you mind explaining WHY it was 
<'rmgrouped'?

Due to news forwarding, the idea that the newsgroup in disccusion was
rec.arts.startrek was lost.

<> The traffic in this group will go away if you, and others, would just follow
<> the rules and post in the other groups.  If your sysadmin refuses to put
<> up the new groups and remove this one, complain, LOUDLY.
<
<Well, hey, I like seeing this group here, and therefore will continue 
<posting to it. If you don't like it, well, there's not much I can do. In 
<the words of Chief Engineer Mongomery Scott, "Everyone's entitled to an 
<opinion", and mine is that this group should stay.
<
<> You are basically costing me money by posting and using a newsgroup that
<> isn't supposed to exist.
<
<Excuse me? Would you mind explaining that? Just how the hell do you 
<figure that OUR posting stuff here is costing YOU money? So who died 
<and made YOU net god, anyway? If you mean that you get charged for 
<posting/reading messages at your site, fine. Just kill this newsgroup 
<from your active list and don't worry about it. If you can't, kill 
<message groups, get your sysadmin to kill it. That way, you won't "have" 
<to read this group, we won't have to read the SAME post OVER and OVER 
<and OVER from you, and all of us can get on with our lives. One more 
<thing: If this newsgroup "doesn't exist" like you claim it is, how come 
<YOU can post to it and pester all of us about its nonexistence?

It is my computer that I use as the system.  But, because the fact that the
newsgroup being discussed is rec.arts.startrek, this whole conversation
should probably start over.

As for rec.arts.startrek being removed, it was done by the readers of the
original rec.arts.startrek to rename the group to the popular sub-newsgroups
and remove the original.

If you can only post to rec.arts.startrek, you need to complain to your
system administrator, since you are missing out on alot of ST and ST:TNG
discussion.

You are costing money by posting to a newsgroup that doesn't exist.
Computer time and transmission time is expensive.  And to post to a group
that isn't read by the majority is a waste.
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