Sydney Hoeltzli wrote:

pac plyer wrote:

I look at RAH just like a busy intercity freeway.

Pac, with respect, I think this analogy is flawed...

The function of a newsgroup is to exchange information.

I think both of you are wrong. (Actually I think both of you are right, but
saying so is not in the usenet tradition).

The function of the newsgroup is primarily entertainment. Most use it for
that. Occasionally someone needs an answer to a question, and usually it
gets answered quickly. Then either the thread drifts into something
completely unrelated but more engaging to the rabble (this thread, for
example), or folks start up a more entertaining thread with nothing to do
with anything important (see BWB's trolls).


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Mike