On Fri, 23 Oct 1992 15:28:31 MST Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU> said: >NONE of them have been any trouble in that respect. Four are library/ >technical in nature, one is a hobby list. I know I can delete the Usenet >link as quickly as any other subscriber in case I have problems, but >they just have not arisen. My experience is that the 'jerks' on Usenet >hangout on a few newsgroups that cater to that mentality, and CDROMLAN >perhaps just isn't one of them. That is indeed true: there are sites which don't even carry the 'bit.*' newsgroups, and they tend to be ignored by people who don't know about BITNET. The worst problems are when you gateway to one of the "core" groups. Eric