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              Please answer these 9 questions and return.

1.) Do you think equal rights for men and women is generally a good idea?
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Haven't heard enough [ ]
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2.) Are you pro choice?
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3.) Are you in favor of adoption?
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4.) Do you think men should be allowed to legally terminate their parental
rights and responsibilities before fetal viability?
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Other                [ ]

5.) What sex are you?
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6.) How old are you?
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7.) What religion are you?
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9.) How many years of education have you completed?
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Newsgroups: alt.vampyres
From: shiv@bnr.ca (Shiv Naimpally)
Subject: Richard Lynch
Reply-To: shiv@bnr.ca (Shiv Naimpally)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd.
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 20:05:02 GMT


Years ago I saw an excellent vampire movie with Richard Lynch as the
vampire. He was living in modern day San Fransisco. The film is 
at least 6-10 years old. Richard Lynch is an excellent villain
and I saw him most recently as Edwardo in Trancers II. He made for
a great vampire. Any info would be appreciated. Please post.
Organization: Senior, Civil Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: alt.vampyres
Date: Wed,  7 Oct 1992 16:05:39 -0400 
From: Todd Alan Padezanin <tp1e+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: wormholes/blackholes/time travel

This has nothing to do with vampieyerz.

There have been several posts about time travel, wormholes, black holes.
 I'd like to hear more details about these things from people who have
actually read scientific material about them.  Please email me if you're
serious about these things.


PanZan
From: jwlhyfer@cyberden.uucp
Newsgroups: alt.vampyres
Subject: Vampire Books-Non-Fiction
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 92 02:26:27 PDT
Organization: Indescribable Creations

There are a couple of books I can remember off the top of my head which 
discuss case histories of vampires or actual encounters. They are 
"Vampires Are!" by Stephen Kaplan (sp) "American Vampires" (Author 
unknown),"Dracula Was a Woman"by Raymond T. McNally, "A Dream of Dracula" 
by Leonard Wolf,and "The Highgate Vampire" by Sean Manchester.There have 
been several others, including one by Montague Summers which I can't 
remember the name of, and a very recently released one which also escapes 
me.I would be interested in the names of any other non-fiction in this 
arena.Email or posts are appreciated.
 I am not interested in discussing the existance or non-existance of the 
creature. I merely wish to add books to my substantial collection.
Thank you for your assistance in this endeavor.

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From: manz@ee.ualberta.ca (Brett {Druid Queen} Manz)
Subject: Re: Given the Choice
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 10:18:52 GMT

In <1992Oct9.092638.11948@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> pdavidso@nyx.cs.du.edu (phil davidson) writes:


>vi

>Hi, While browsing through this group for the first time, I question came
>to mine.  I question that I've asked my self once or twice.  Ignoring the
>arguement of whether 'THEY' exist or not, lets say they do (for arguement

>sake).  If YOU were given the choice to join their legion. Would you?????
>Who would be willing to walk the dark path of existence for all the
>benefits (real or perceived).  Some days I think I would say an emphatic
>'YES!!'. But then other days, when I'm feeling more 'sane' perhaps 'no'.
>For those you can manage, Email me fil@moria (152.62.222.211).


In a second.  

Of course I'd have to move somewhere where the summer nights
are longer than four hours. :-)-- 
---------------------------------+-------------------------------------
 My opinions are my own.         |  You can't be proud of who you are
 The truth belongs to everyone.  |  if you're ashamed of what you are.
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From: v125p7c5@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Michael Lamanna)
Newsgroups: alt.vampyres
Subject: methods of detection and killing
Keywords: killing, detection
Date: 13 Oct 92 14:55:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41


	I am interested in the 2 following topics:

	1) The ways in which one can detect that some one is a vampire.

	2) The ways in which one can kill some one that is a vampire.

	Please send this via e-mail.  I would rather you not post it, since
there seems to be some controversy as to some methods.  I would rather not
start a debate on the subject.
	I would also like for you to include a reference to some book, fiction
or non-fiction as to where you got this information.  Also if it is something
that you heard from word of mouth then let me know that as well.


						Michael Lamanna
					     University At Buffalo
					       Civil Engineering

	"It is easier to get forgiven than permission."


lamanna@ubunix.cc.buffalo.edu
v125p7c5@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu
From: kat@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (Flame's Passion)
Newsgroups: alt.vampyres
Subject: Other Nifty Newsgroups
Date: 14 Oct 92 23:26:59 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
NNTP-Posting-Host: bigwpi.wpi.edu


I'm looking for a newsgroup that deals with folklore, withcraft, or the like.
(Or newsgroups...)  Anyway, does anyone have any suggestions?  

kat
 ***************************************************************************
      Christina Freeman                                 kat@wpi.wpi.edu
		"Was there not, from the first, more poison in
 			  your nature than in mine?" 
                           - _Rappaccini's Daughter_ 
			      Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Newsgroups: alt.vampyres
From: Whoa!
Subject: Re: Near Dark
Organization: Allegheny College
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 15:26:47 GMT

>WHOA Finally, think of the geometric progression (hope that's the right  
term) of 
>WHOA vampirism if everyone that was bit became a vampire.  One then two  
then 
>WHOA four then eight...We'd have been up to our necks (ok, flame away)   
in the 
>WHOA little rascals before Hector was a pup.  It's a good thing Anne Rice  
came 
>WHOA along to invent the not-all-the-way-to-vampire bite. :)
>WHOA 
>WHOA ________________________________________________________________
>WHOA 
>WHOA Friends don't let friends go to Miami University.
>WHOA 
>WHOA Bill Devol 

Actually, Fred Saberhagen (Sabergen or something like that- the famous  
sci-fi author) wrote a book recently about a vampire trying to take over  
the world by this method.  The book takes place in L.A. and I won't ruin  
the surprise by revealing the ending.  In terms of vampire lore it is  
relatively run-of-the-mill, but a damn good read anyway.  The title eludes  
me, but it is referential to vamps so it should be relatively easy to find  
in a card catalog if you look under Saberhagen...

Simon Binder
binders@alleg.edu
From: rougan@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (Untitiled)
Newsgroups: alt.vampyres
Subject: Vampire wisdom, and existance
Date: 8 Oct 92 16:31:21
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA 01609-2280
NNTP-Posting-Host: bigwpi.wpi.edu
In-reply-to: v076jy2p@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu's message of 8 Oct 92 14:47:00 GMT


             Ok, now just a thought.  Lets pretend that vampires in the mythic
sense do exist.  Now if they did, alot of them would have been around for quite
some time right?  Now over this time I would think that they learn a few things
One mainly being that as a vampire your better off if no one believes in  you.
The arguements for this a fairly obvious, whereas the majority of society would
want you dead and all.  Now if no one believed in you then there wouldnt be 
these massive vampire death hunts and all right? Ok.  So if you were a vampire
wouldnt you want to spread the word that you couldn't possibly exist, So
you and a few of your buddies would conceivably try to make slaves or whatever
of them science like fellas and all, and start spreading all this discreting 
stuff.  Now you might let it slip out once in a while that you do exist to,
I dont know, a tabloid.  No one takes these seriosly so no one will believe it
but this keeps the myth factor going which is good because if absolutely no one
believed and the myth died, then if you made a mistake there just might be some
serious investigation and they might go hmmmm and start looking into things.
But with myth, if a person nowadays says they saw a vampire people think that
there living in a fantasy world and all that, but without it if a person 
claimed to see this thing and no one had ever heard of it they would think 
that the person had an active imagination, but if a lot of people did they 
would start to wonder, as opposed a lot of people living in a Ann Rice book...
So...you being the vampire have decided its good not be believed in so
you yourself argue agains vampires, except to perhaps go and ispire a writer
every now and then, it keeps the myth thing going and all.  Now go back and
read all them posts about existance.  Those who claim to be vampires probaly 
arent, or are just realy stupid, and just perhaps one of those people who
posted one of those realy antivampire posts is one,.
  But then Again I dont believe in vampires, or much of anything else realy.

Just some food for thought.

rougan(Shawn M. Pezzuto)
Newsgroups: alt.vampyres
From: kyre@reed.edu (Aerick of Ghorka)
Subject: Re: Given the Choice
Organization: Reed Insane Asylum
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 06:41:42 GMT

In article <manz.718712332@ee.ualberta.ca> manz@ee.ualberta.ca (Brett {Druid Queen} Manz) writes:
>In <1992Oct9.092638.11948@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> pdavidso@nyx.cs.du.edu (phil davidson) writes:

>>If YOU were given the choice to join their legion. Would you?????
>>Who would be willing to walk the dark path of existence for all the
>>benefits (real or perceived).  Some days I think I would say an emphatic
>>'YES!!'. But then other days, when I'm feeling more 'sane' perhaps 'no'.
>>For those you can manage, Email me fil@moria (152.62.222.211).


>In a second.  

I second that again, and without hesitation.

Erik
-- 
* Everything that my fingers have typed is strictly the product of their own *
* demented imaginations.  -- Erik Gorka (kyre@reed.edu)			     *
Newsgroups: alt.vampyres
From: chil@fraser.sfu.ca (Keith Lim)
Subject: Re: Vampire Victims Needed for TV Interview!
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 09:56:20 GMT

cgc2646@usl.edu (Cech Claude G) writes:
>In article <chil.718452556@sfu.ca> chil@fraser.sfu.ca (Keith Lim) writes:
>>
>>Quick answers: because vampires are real cool; yes, probably; I still could;
>>I wouldn't be, that's a false stereotype; flawed analogy; no it wasn't, and
>>yes, it was.

>(Sigh)  Time for a reality check.  The notion of a vampire figure as a
>Romantic figure is straight out of fiction!!!  The vampire of myth (ANY
>mythological vampire, as far as I know) is a rather nasty, user-non-
>friendly entity.

Time for some perspective. Don't assume that it was the straight-out-of-
fiction-vampire-figure-as-romantic-figure image I had in my mind when I
wrote that vampires are "real cool". I don't think mincing around in a
tux., with perfect hair, and speaking in some silly accent is "cool". You
say nasty, user-non-friendly entity; I say real cool. To-may-to, to-mah-to.

  If you like the St. Germaine character or Lestat, hey,
>fine!  But don't try to build existence or non-existence proofs over a
>figment of a (script-) write

It ain't me arguing in the existence/non-existence proofs thread, which,
incidentally, is boring me to death (no pun intended.)

> Mythological vampires are
>not good role models.      

Po-tay-to, po-tah-to.

-- 
Keith_Lim@sfu.ca   Simon Fraser University, Burnaby B.C., V5A 1S6, Canada
Hon Cog Sci; Min Psyc; Forum; Senate; CDSU; URC; ASC; FARSIDE; LEAD; CCCS
I officially represent each and every one of the above bodies--NOT!

Elaan: "That ancient Earth custom called spanking...what is it?"
Kirk : "Well, er...er...we'll talk about that later!"
From: jwlhyfer@cyberden.uucp
Newsgroups: alt.vampyres
Subject: Coppola's Dracula
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 01:58:58 PDT
Organization: Indescribable Creations

The current issue of Cinefantastique is an all Dracula issue w/ many, 
many details and articles on the upcominf film..enjoy..

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From: pdavidso@nyx.cs.du.edu (phil davidson)
Subject: Given the Choice
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 92 09:26:38 GMT


vi

Hi, While browsing through this group for the first time, I question came
to mine.  I question that I've asked my self once or twice.  Ignoring the
arguement of whether 'THEY' exist or not, lets say they do (for arguement

sake).  If YOU were given the choice to join their legion. Would you?????
Who would be willing to walk the dark path of existence for all the
benefits (real or perceived).  Some days I think I would say an emphatic
'YES!!'. But then other days, when I'm feeling more 'sane' perhaps 'no'.
For those you can manage, Email me fil@moria (152.62.222.211).


Manbeard talks of dark an wicked thoughts..........   :-[
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 23:25:34 EDT
From: <JAL137@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.vampyres
Subject: Re: methods of detection and killing
 <Bw2xLv.I4H@acsu.buffalo.edu>

'Lo all,
     The one thing that I _know_ is a constant across ALL vampires is a
  life-or-death dependence upon the "essences" of other creatures... It's
  their innately parasitic nature.
     All vampire myths that I'm aware of require that they siphon some
  form of energy from their "victims", not necessarily leading to a
  fatality.
     Of course, this describes the entire human race. Oh well...
     Note that the "item" taken does not have to be blood, other myths
  have placed tears, laughter, emotions, thought, "human essence", etc.
  in the traditional role of blood.
     Just my two bites worth...
                               -Jonathan A. L.
                               (desperately seeking vampiric pen pal)
Newsgroups: alt.vampyres
From: ctatro@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Christopher D Tatro)
Subject: Aborted Anne Rice Manuscript? ;-)
Keywords: vampire humor
Organization: The Ohio State University
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 21:02:28 GMT

(The following manuscript was reported to have been found in a dumpster outside
of Anne Rice's New Orleans home.  This can be neither confirmed nor denied at
this time.)

     "I am the Vampire Les Nessman.  I'm immortal. I am five foot six inches
tall, which was fairly below average in the 1970s when I was a young, virile
man. It's still below average today.  I have thin greyish hair, which appears
thin and greyish under fluorescent light. I have a bandage on my thumb from
when I cut myself shaving.  As my hair no longer grows I do not need to shave,
but I do ayway.  That's the kind of man I am.  I wear dark horn rimmed glasses,
which women in these modern times find irresistable.
     "Right now I'm what America calls a media superstar.  I am a radio
newsman.  I have won the Buckeye Newshawk award and the Golden Sow award.  They
sit on my desk.  I have a listening audience of hundreds and a fan club of
dozens.
     "I came out into the 1990s last year.
     "I had been sleeping in the ground since 1977.  The days of radio were
gone, and there was no longer an interest in radio journalism.  Everything was
television, television, television.  What brought me back was a voice.  It was
Bob Edwards of National Public Radio.  I knew that my time had come at last.
     "A small college radio station had been set up in the building under which
I lay.  I could hear the announcers, their young voices so rich and beautiful,
as they read the news at the top of each hour.  I wanted to get closer to it, I
 wanted to do it!
   "Finally it became time to introduce myself to these succulent young disc
jockeys.
     "The announcer, Larry and his gopher Alex recognized my name when I said
it was Nessman. They though it was delightful that I was pretending to be the
Vampire Les Nessman.  Paul Harvey had been done to death, they said.
     "They then gave me an old video tape, and suggested that I watch it, so
that I might get the characterization a little closer. I took it to the A/V
room and distastefully put it into the video cassette machine. It was a tape
recording of a television show, 'WKRP in Cincinnati'.  I watched the tape over
and over, and then in a moment of contempable anger I smashed the tape to bits.
     "My beloved Herb, he had done this..."

(at this point the manuscript trails off into apparently drug induced fits of
nonsense.)

(semi-legal note: the vampire lestat is copyright1985 by Anne O'Brien Rice.
This material is not intended for sale or as a challenge of said copyright.
"WKRP in Cincinnati" is copyright of some big tv company. ditto.
The concept of "The Vampire Les Nessman" was conceived of by Gwendolyn Piper of
Northampton MA, where it's cool to be a vampyre!)

Disturbitas Vobiscum
 -kristoff
 (it's a joke, see.  humor, that is.  it wasn't really found in New Orleans.  I
just made it up.  Why do you vampgoths have to be so serious about everything?)
From: jbw@bigbird.bu.edu (Joe Wells)
Newsgroups: alt.vampyres
Subject: "prove there is a vampire" (was: Vampire Victims Needed for TV Int...)
Date: 11 Oct 92 00:26:45 GMT
 <1992Oct05.173842.20056@microsoft.com> <21024@plains.NoDak.edu>
Distribution: usa
Organization: Boston University Computer Science Department
In-reply-to: dhenry@plains.NoDak.edu's message of 7 Oct 92 03:42:43 GMT

In article <21024@plains.NoDak.edu> dhenry@plains.NoDak.edu (David Henry) writes:

   Once again -- please prove to us first that there is a vampire.

Once again, you fail to realize that it is impossible to prove anything
about reality, and thus blather on asking for proofs.

-- 
Joe Wells <jbw@cs.bu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.vampyres
From: donnell@barnacle.micro.umn.edu (Your Heinous)
Subject: Lumley's Necroscope series
Organization: none
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 18:35:40 GMT

Any other fans of Brian Lumley's Necroscope series out here? It is a 
rather pulpy series, but it is good pulp and he has some very interesting
ideas about the symbiotic/parasitic nature of the Wamphyrii.
Let's Talk

Necroscope
Vamphyrii
The Source 
Deadspeak
Deadspawn

					--Judex--
From: dhenry@plains.NoDak.edu (David Henry)
Newsgroups: alt.vampyres
Subject: Re: Existance of Vampires (was: Vampire Victims Needed for TV Interview!)
Keywords: Sunlight allergies
Date: 7 Oct 92 03:24:28 GMT
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network

>|> bat, wolf, or cloud), which is also unprecedented. They suffer massive
>|> allergic reactions to sunlight, basically unheard of in multi-cellular
>|> lifeforms. And so on.
>
>     <chuckle> Actually, I have a couple of acquaintances who have allergic
>reactions to sunlight. They have to stay all covered up or break out in rashes
>or hives. Of course, I assume by 'massive allergic reaction' you mean catching
>fire and/or turning to dust. I've never heard of either of them doing that. :)

Hell, son, *I* have a minor trouble with sunlight. That's why I prefer the
night. But, no, I'm not worried about vampires, and, yes, my 'massive
allergic reaction' was spontaneous combustion caused by sunrise, something
exhibited by no land-based vertebrate to my knowledge.

-- 
David R. Henry - Rogue Fan Club - CTHULHU in '92! Why vote for LESSER evils?
"Boy, do I love PLASTIC!" -- TJ Teru // What was your question? --Kate Bush
"All you of Earth are IDIOTS!"-P9fOS // Thanks... for the memories.--Rogue
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From: petek@vipunen.hut.fi (Petri 'Pete' Karha)
Subject: Re: Please Help
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Date:  9 Oct 92 11:48:31 GMT

In <tgvzclh@rpi.edu> battlec@cs.rpi.edu (Clark Battle) writes:
>what does this have to do with vampires.  

What does it have to do with anything? It's in practically all the news
groups. 

>PLEASE DONT DISCUSS THIS IN VAMPIRES

E-mail an answer instead. If everybody who reads the article answers,
his hard disk will blow up and we have one jerk less.

-- 
s32852b@puukko.hut.fi ! Petri 'Pete' Karha    ! Helsinki University of Tech.
petek@otax.tky.hut.fi ! Kirstinharju 11 L 198 ! Metrology Research Institute
petek@vipunen.hut.fi  ! SF-02760 Espoo        ! Tel: +358-0-4512282
Tel: +358-0-8053655   ! FINLAND the FUNLAND   ! Fax: +358-0-460224
From: esrag@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr W M D Wright)
Newsgroups: alt.vampyres
Subject: Re: Lumley's Necroscope series
Date: 16 Oct 1992 10:12:10 +0100
Organization: Computing Services, University of Warwick, UK
NNTP-Posting-Host: clover.csv.warwick.ac.uk

In article <1992Oct14.183540.6416@news2.cis.umn.edu> donnell@barnacle.micro.umn.edu (Your Heinous) writes:
>Any other fans of Brian Lumley's Necroscope series out here? It is a 
>rather pulpy series, but it is good pulp and he has some very interesting
>ideas about the symbiotic/parasitic nature of the Wamphyrii.
>Let's Talk
>
>Necroscope
>Vamphyrii
>The Source 
>Deadspeak
>Deadspawn
>
>					--Judex--
>

I particularly liked his methods of exterminating wamphyri...

First, a lignumvitae(sp?) crossbow bolt in the heart to keep the little bugger
still, then an optional decapitation, followed by a session with a nice hefty
flame-thrower.....

This man has style.
	
Sleep well, bloodsuckers,

Bill

-- 
|**** Bill Wright ****|  esrag@csv.warwick.ac.uk  |  es770@eng.warwick.ac.uk   |
| Dept of Engineering |==============Red Dwarf quote of the day================|
|University of Warwick|"Is that what I think it is ?" "What d'you think it is?"|
| Coventry England UK |"An orange whirly thing in space !" "It's a time hole." |
From: dhenry@plains.NoDak.edu (David Henry)
Newsgroups: alt.vampyres
Subject: Re: "prove there is a vampire" (was: Vampire Victims Needed for TV Int...)
Date: 13 Oct 92 04:37:23 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network

>
>   Once again -- please prove to us first that there is a vampire.
>
>Once again, you fail to realize that it is impossible to prove anything
>about reality, and thus blather on asking for proofs.

Once again (hey, this is getting fun!), your insistance that there is nothing
you can prove in reality stuns me with its goofy insistence. What, praytell,
allows you to grace us with such deep philosophy, if your existential hands
cannot touch your quantized keyboard?
-- 
David R. Henry - Rogue Fan Club - CTHULHU in '92! Why vote for LESSER evils?
"Boy, do I love PLASTIC!" -- TJ Teru // What was your question? --Kate Bush
"All you of Earth are IDIOTS!"-P9fOS // Thanks... for the memories.--Rogue
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