XPost: rec.arts.drwho   
   From: blueshirt@indigo.news   
      
   Keith F. Lynch wrote:   
      
   > Again, please keep the Dr. Who slop out of the   
   > rec.arts.sf.fandom newsgroup. That's a low-volume   
   > newsgroup for discussing fandom itself, meaning coventions   
   > and the people who attend and run them, and fanzines and   
   > the people who write and publish them.   
      
   What about the newsgroups that discuss these shows, are they   
   not a part of "fandom" too? I mean, a fan writing something   
   about a sci-fi show for a fanzine or in a Usenet post is pretty   
   similar. A newsgroup could even be considered an online fanzine!   
      
   > In recent days the unwanted Dr. Who slop has exceeded all   
   > other traffic in that newsgroup, threatening to destroy it.   
      
   How can traffic destroy a newsgroup? Traffic keeps it alive.   
   You are free to use filters or killfiles to ignore the   
   posts/posters that you don't want to see and/or read though.   
      
   Also, who decides what content is wanted and unwanted on any   
   specific newsgroup? Surely the readers of any newsgroup exercise   
   their own judgement by using the aforesaid filter mechanisms to   
   decide what content they read, or ignore?   
      
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