"blake murphy" > wrote :
>>
>>I had a similar thought. Usenet has NOT always been a "free-for-all".
>>Not until AOL was loosed upon it, anyway. Anyone who was reading
>>before then knows how much that changed things...
>
> i'm not so sure about that. a.o.l. may have unleashed many stupid
> people, but vicious people have always been around. i know of more
> than one usenet group that moved to another venue for just that
> reason.
>

Often the viciousness begins with people who have become
"proprietary" about a group. Regulars who routinely harass
new posters or otherwise try to control the group. The response
is often not pretty. Viciousness begets viciousness.



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