FInal? Thoughts on alt.book.pynchon

[Brett Coley (512/436-8987)]

Henry wrote:

> Unwelcome comments on comments on unwelcome exclusions.
> Brilliant! Fractal! Meta! Pynchonesque!
> To think we might have seen more of this on the news group. <!>
>
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Well, I liked the unwelcome excursion just a bit, sort of like that
crazy college roommate who shows up 10 yrs later at midnight unannounced
and takes you on a Pig Bodine trip.  But, I do understand the fear of
flame wars, the Signal to Noise ratios to be considered etc.

I'm curious, are folks really afraid of a newsgroup?  Do you have a
sense of missing something if you didn't read it?  Or is it a fear that
it would attract "undesirables" to this list?  Or draw all traffic away?
Or is it something else?

I admit I don't understand the opposition, and I'm really interested in
this from a technology point of view (may finish that thesis yet!).
Send e-mail offline so we don't bother the folks here if you have any
thoughts on newsgroups.

Thanks,
Brett
bcoley at vnet.ibm.com
(speaking from, but not for IBM)