HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: elle@kimbark.uchicago.edu (Ellen Keyne Seebacher)
Newsgroups: alt.config
Subject: Re: rmgroup alt.graphics
Date: 13 Apr 92 17:33:56 GMT
Reply-To: elle@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations

In article <92104.051905JIM@auvm.american.edu> 
 jim@american.edu (Jim McIntosh) writes:
>In article <_9vjcd.jef@netcom.com>, jef@netcom.com (Jef Poskanzer) says:
>>There is no alt.graphics newsgroup....If you have the group on your
>>system you are doing your users a dis-service, since any articles
>>they post there will be junked on the vast majority of sites.
>
>I've seen your  rmgroup requests before. alt.graphics has 13  posts in it
>here (with  a four day  retention period). Since  this is alt,  and since
>people are  using the group, shouldn't  we let them? Why  rmgroup a group
>people are using?

Please pay attention to what Jef is saying.  There are already
graphics newsgroups; the traffic for alt.graphics (as it arrives in
_my_ "junk" directory, in any case) consists almost exclusively of
pleas for assistance for novice users, most of which will fall on deaf
ears -- because the graphics people are all reading groups like
comp.graphics.

I sort my junk directory pretty regularly, and send out form letters
to sysadmins whose users are still posting to places like comp.sys.mac.  
Most of them just never caught up with deletions of old groups, and
appreciate my letting them know.  Every now and then, though, I'll get
an indignant letter from an admin who says by god, if people still use
comp.sys.mac, they see no reason to remove the group :-(.

Same thing.  Your users can reach 50,000 people or more with an
article, or they can reach a very small fraction of that.  It's your
site, and your choice, but I think if you don't remove the old and
unnecessary groups and direct them to the "real" ones, you're doing
your users a disservice.

--
Ellen Keyne Seebacher            elle@midway.uchicago.edu
  "Usenet is like San Francisco:  you learn that it's no use screaming
   at the pigeons, so you'd might as well just carry Kleenex."
                           -- Joseph T. Chew (jtchew@csa3.lbl.gov)
Xref: sparky alt.config:2922 alt.bbs.internet:2301
Newsgroups: alt.config,alt.bbs.internet
Subject: Re: RFD: Split Alt.BBs.Internet
From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 00:08:58 GMT
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange

In article <1992Apr13.160155.651@cs.unca.edu> mcmahan@cs.unca.edu (Scott McMahan -- Genesis mailing list owner) writes:
> RFD: Let's discuss a new heirarchy.
> 
> The oddly named alt.bbs.internet is in bad shape.
> People think it's for BBSes connected to the internet, or a BBS
> discussion list, or mostly a trash can for things that they're
> too lazy to find an appropriate group for.
> 
> What we need, and I'm prepared to create, is:
> 
> alt.internet.services
> 
> 	Places you can telnet to on the internet. Info services, BBS,
> 	Websters, and everyhting else the unfortunately named
> 	alt.bbs.internet is supposed to have.
> 
> alt.internet.access
> 		   [.personal]
> 		   [.connections]
> 
> 	This group, which should probably be split into two, should
> 	be for people who want
> 
> 	* Access to the internet through modems, local bbses, 
> 	  and other ficticious "public access" which people know
> 	  doesn't exist but post anyway.

Excuse me, but they do exist. Maybe you should post and ask where to find
them?

> 
> 	* Access to internet for their computers, to provide local\
> 	  users (BBS, et. al.) usenet, mail, and so on. 
> 	  (Of course, they couldn't afford it, but it's a nice thought.
> 
> 	* People who are loosing University accounts and need new ones.
> 
> Both of these groups are really necessary, but they are so different in
> content that they sohould not be allowed to be lumped together.
> 
> If this is agreeable to people (and I'm assuming no interest = agreement),
> I'll develop FAQs for both of these.
> 
> This re-organization is a thing whose time has come!!
> 
> Scott
>  

What is your problem with the current situation, Scott? Is it a resource
problem or........what? I for one like the one-stop shop approach that
alt.bbs.internet  delivers in a de facto way. I use the trn news reader, so
sorting through the various threads is easy. I understand how someone using rn
would get brassed off - wading sequentially through irrelevant messages.....

Why not a moderated alt.bbs.internet.announce - describing services - and the
current alt.bbs.internet for general free-for-all, FAQ ignoring, posts?
 
Steve

 



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Newsgroups: alt.config
From: bsc7@po.CWRU.Edu (Bradley S. Corsello)
Subject: Re: Newsgroup Vandalism
Reply-To: bsc7@po.CWRU.Edu (Bradley S. Corsello)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 92 08:42:01 GMT


In a previous article, gcf@panix.com (Gordon Fitch) say
>I don't know what's been going on in
>alt.drugs, but alt.postmodern has seen hundreds of these
>articles already, and they're still coming.

I think the c*scaders are performing a valuable service for the net by 
increasing the noise-to-signal ratio of the groups they so generously visit
with their boundless wit.  We all know that a good group has a NTSR of
at least .8.  The NTSRs of some groups are dangerously low, on the order of
.3 or so.  I urge the c*scaders to seek out those groups and rectify the
situation.  As Gordon pointed out, the comp.* hierarchy in general is 
starving for noise, as is the sci.* hierarchy (with the exception of 
sci.skeptic).  I think the c*scaders are wasting too much valuable time and
too much of their scintillating intellect filling up groups like alt.fan.
monty-python, which are pretty much signal-free to start with.

To paraphrase Admiral Nelson, "NET EXPECTS EACH C*ASCADER TO DO HIS DUTY."
-- 
Brad Corsello (bsc7@po.cwru.edu) 1L Case Western Reserve Law School
"Studium legum superat laborem." _ U.S. _ (Holmes, J., dissenting).
"You can believe me because I never lie and I'm always right." - FT
"Factum clarum, jus nebulosum."  Rex v. Haddock (Ct. Crim. App.)
Newsgroups: alt.config
From: jamesb@nevada.edu (James Bender)
Subject: Re: reorg of alt. music groups?
Organization: University of Nevada System, Computing Services
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 23:18:54 GMT

>>alt.guitar	 => alt.music.guitar
>>'
	Alt.guitar discusses the art of playing a guitar. If you put it in
the music hierarchy(sp?), people are going to think that it is for music that
is guitar-oriented. I think it should be left alone, after all, the argument 
that started this whole thing hasn't involved that group at all.

						James B


From:     		jamesb@redrock.nevada.edu
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Newsgroups: alt.config,alt.activism,talk.politics.misc
From: jef@netcom.com (Jef Poskanzer)
Subject: Re: alt.ev to be created tommorrow.
Date: Sun, 05 Apr 92 18:57:34 GMT
Organization: Paratheo-Anametamystikhood Of Eris Esoteric
Reply-To: Jef Poskanzer <jef@netcom.com>

ev@tygra.Michigan.COM (John Palmer):
}The name has been made more self-explanitory. Newgroup will not be issued
}by me until people have had a chance to comment on it. After all, if 
}our group is to advocate democracy, we should live that way ourselves.

If an overwhelming majority of respondents voted that tygra should
remove itself from Usenet, what would you do?  Just curious.
---
Jef

           Jef Poskanzer  jef@netcom.com  jef@well.sf.ca.us
  "I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and
       democracy - but that could change." -- J. Danforth Quayle
Newsgroups: alt.config,alt.religion.kibology
From: dsbarr@modula.cs.psu.edu (Dave Barr)
Subject: Re: alt.cascade 
Followup-To: alt.religion.kibology
Reply-To: dsbarr@cs.psu.edu
Organization: Penn State Computer Science
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 22:34:35 GMT

In article <cubsfan.703462453@camelot> cubsfan@camelot.bradley.edu (Michael Silverman) writes:
>For the uninformed, what is a cascade?
For uniforms, use cascade!

--Dave
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Xref: sparky alt.config:2991 alt.war:779 soc.history:3636
From: zursch@sgi.com (Jeffrey B. Zurschmeide)
Newsgroups: alt.config,alt.war,soc.history
Subject: Re: A new name for the proposed group (Was RFD: alt.american-civil-war)
Date: 15 Apr 92 21:29:02 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA

Personally, I'd favor alt.war.WBTS (War Between The States) but only
because I like short group names. 

Or perhaps alt.war.northern.aggression ;^} (That's a JOKE, douse those flames!)

alt.late-unpleasantness? 
alt.shiloh?

Seriously, alt.war.us-civil is short and gets the job done. 

This post worth $0.02 more than you paid for it...

JZ
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Newsgroups: alt.config,soc.history,soc.culture.usa,alt.war
From: pdunn@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Patrick L Dunn)
Subject: RFD: alt.american-civil-war
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 06:02:41 GMT


This is a formal request for discussion regarding the creation of a new
unmoderated newsgroup, alt.american-civil-war.

The primary reason for requesting this group is to consolodate the long threads
which occur periodically in newsgroups such as soc.history, alt.war, and
soc.culture.usa from time to time.  It will allow a "home base" for the many
net users who seem to have a strong interest in studying or discussing the war.

Topics to be discussed in the newsgroup can involve any of the aspects of the
war (military, political, social, etc.).  It can also serve as a clearing house
for those seeking help when searching the massive amount of literature which
has been written about the war, thus facilitating research for academic or
personal purposes.

Please send comments and suggestions to:

Patrick Dunn
The Ohio State University
email: pdunn@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
From: aem@paris.cs.miami.edu (a.e.mossberg)
Newsgroups: alt.config
Subject: alt.music groups
Date: 16 Apr 92 15:00:07 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Mathematics & Computer Science, University of Miami
Reply-To: aem@paris.cs.miami.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: paris.cs.miami.edu


Well, it looks like there is support for cleaning up the music groups in
alt.... Who wants to break the news to the people in the groups?

aem
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Xref: sparky alt.config:2924 news.groups:10235 rec.arts.sf.movies:3267 rec.arts.startrek.tech:2679 rec.arts.comics:13022
From: forbes@cbnewsf.cb.att.com (scott.forbes)
Newsgroups: alt.config,news.groups,rec.arts.sf.movies,rec.arts.startrek.tech,rec.arts.comics
Subject: RFD: alt.who-would-win
Keywords: X vs. Y
Date: 14 Apr 92 01:13:28 GMT
Article-I.D.: cbfsb.1992Apr14.011328.20224
Followup-To: alt.config
Organization: AT&T

This is a formal Request For Discussion, proposing the creation of an
unmoderated newsgroup:

alt.who-would-win
  Discussions of the "X vs. Y" variety, where X and Y are two fictional
  characters, groups, ships, weapons, objects, or any other two things
  for which the outcome of a battle is debatable.

This group is intended to remove traffic from rec.arts.sf.movies and other
newsgroups which occasionally suffer from this dreaded topic.


Disclaimer:  I know almost absolutely nothing about creating alt.* groups

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Newsgroups: alt.config
From: bjmccall@cco.caltech.edu (Benjamin John McCall)
Subject: PEROT mailing list!
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Distribution: world, local
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 01:48:25 GMT


I post this to alt.config only to "satisfy" the folks who were pushing
for a newsgroup dedicated to H. Ross Perot:



Announcing the availability of a mailing list for issues pertaining to
the candidacy of H. Ross Perot for President.

Views in support of and in opposition to Perot are encouraged, as is any
information about Perot (transcripts, etc.).

To subscribe, send mail to bjmccall@ugcs.caltech.edu with the word
SUBSCRIBE in the Subject: line.  To post, send mail to the same address
with the word POST in the Subject: line.

In addition, an ftp site now contains files pertinent to Perot.  The host
is cco.caltech.edu in directory /pub/bjmccall/Perot.  For help on how
to use ftp, finger ftp@ooo.caltech.edu.  If you do not have ftp access,
send mail to bjmccall@ugcs.caltech.edu with the words FILE REQUEST in the
Subject: line.

If you have any questions, feel free to mail me - I only ask that you
put the word QUESTION in your Subject: line.

Ben McCall
bjmccall@ugcs.caltech.edu
From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: alt.drumcorps/colorguard (Re: Yet another listing of "alt" newsgroups)
Organization: Taronga Park BBS
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 12:03:06 GMT

How about merging the two groups under a common marching-band hierarchy?
-- 
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Xref: sparky alt.config:2981 alt.rock-n-roll:10011 alt.rock-n-roll.metal:6662
From: becker@acsu.buffalo.edu (Don Becker)
Newsgroups: alt.config,alt.rock-n-roll,alt.rock-n-roll.metal
Subject: alt.rock-n-roll.hard: Who wants to do a newgroup?
Date: 15 Apr 92 17:16:44 GMT
Organization: UB


Since the feedback on my idea to create alt.rock-n-roll.hard has been nothing
but positive, could someone out there send out a newgroup message?

Also, WRT Maple's suggestion to move *.metal groups into the new alt.music
hierarchy, I'm all for it. 

--Don

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Newsgroups: alt.config,alt.bbs.internet,alt.religion.kibology
From: kibo@world.std.com (James 'Kibo' Parry)
Subject: Re: Can I find a good pirate board on Internet?
Keywords: IBM, software
Organization: B0FF"S BRANE
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 04:39:29 GMT

[alt.config]
In article <H.l4HFZ9Rn5Lk@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca> jhenders@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca writes:
>In <rdippold.703289702@cancun>, Ron Dippold writes:
>>I'm sorry, but this was just too much to pass up.  From alt.bbs.internet.
>>
>>bwebster@next06pg2.wam.umd.edu (Bryan Earl Webster) writes:
>>
>>>Are there any BBS' on Internet that have "pirated" software?
>>>If there are will someone please drop me a line to let me know where they  
>>>are?
>
>    Just shows KIBO was right. This should be under the megabozo hierarchy.

HEY D00DZ 4 L0TS 0F K00L PIRATED WAREZ 4 THE C64 (LIEK MINE !!!!1) L00K
IN SCI.AQUARIA !!!!1  THEY HAV L0TS & L0TS 0F STUFF EVAN PAC-MAN 2 !!!!!!1

PS WH0SE KIB0 ????????????/

								-- B0FF

Xref: sparky alt.config:2949 soc.history:3607 soc.culture.usa:2956 alt.war:752
From: mss2@quads.uchicago.edu (Michael S. Schiffer)
Newsgroups: alt.config,soc.history,soc.culture.usa,alt.war
Subject: Re: RFD: alt.american-civil-war
Date: 14 Apr 92 19:10:27 GMT
Reply-To: mss2@midway.uchicago.edu
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations

In article <4632@huxley.cs.nps.navy.mil> jxxl@cs.nps.navy.mil (John Locke) writes:
>kherron@ms.uky.edu (Kenneth Herron) writes:

>> I prefer to avoid creating new names directly under alt when possible.
>> And of course, there's more than one "america", and "american-civil-war"
>> fails the SysV ruler test.  How about "alt.war.us-civil-war"?

>I agree that the group should go under alt.war. How about something a
>tad shorter like alt.war.us-civil? However, the idea for the group is
>good as this topic seems to be a speciality interest for a lot of folks.

How about alt.history.war.us-civil?  That way, if the group traffic
seems to justify moving it into the standard Usenet at any point, it
will be trivial to propose either soc.history.war.us-civil or
(if the usa hierarchy ever gets off the ground) usa.history.war.civil.
Also, "alt.history.war.<whatever>" sounds a bit less bellicose.

Mike
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mss2@midway.uchicago.edu	 you from doing what's right!"
mike.schiffer@um.cc.umich.edu	 --Mayor Salvor Hardin of Terminus
mss2@usite-next.uchicago.edu     Isaac Asimov, _Foundation_
Newsgroups: alt.config
Subject: alt.music.filk??? alt.wall???
From: jbryans@beach.csulb.edu (Jack Bryans)
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 20:41:39 GMT
Organization: Cal State Long Beach

What is this stuff?  I don't recall seeing either discussed in this group.
The former's spending a brief time in our junk group, the latter's been
"x"'d in our active file -- it looks like some UCB'er's managed to gateway
his wall into usenet.

Jack
Newsgroups: alt.config
From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: No responses: Its gonna be alt.etrnl-vigilanc
Organization: Taronga Park BBS
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 00:40:35 GMT

In article <1992Apr3.203925.28950@tygra.Michigan.COM> news@tygra.Michigan.COM (USENET News Manager) writes:
>So far, I've not received any other suggestions regarding the name for 
>the group dedicated to the organization of Eternal Vigilance.

How about "alt.society.rsl"?

>I'll 
>newgroup it as "alt.society.etrnl-vigilanc" in a day or so, provided
>there aren't any reasonable objections.

It's hideously ugly. If you create it I will issue an rmgroup on that
basis.

Seriously.

>Send any comments to 
>   ev@michigan.com

learn how to use your bloody "reply-to" line, twit.
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Newsgroups: alt.config
From: cubsfan@camelot.bradley.edu (Michael Silverman)
Subject: Re: alt.cascade 
Organization: Bradley University
Date: 16 Apr 92 22:14:13 GMT

For the uninformed, what is a cascade?
From: djweisberger@amherst.edu (David Weisberger)
Newsgroups: alt.config
Subject: Re: RFD: alt.politics.elections
Date: 28 Mar 92 04:24:43 GMT
Followup-To: alt.config
Organization: Amherst College, Amherst, MA.

In article <4527@huxley.cs.nps.navy.mil>, jxxl@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil (John Locke) writes:
> This is a proposal to create alt.politics.elections, primarily to discuss
> the current interminable U.S. presidential campaign, although elections
> in other countries would be suitable subjects, too.
> 
> Comments?
> 
Let's do it.  I agree that elections everywhere should be fair game.
Perhaps US elections would dominate the discussion, but I think it would
be helpful to be able to compare (and be cynical).


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Newsgroups: alt.config,alt.activism,talk.politics.misc
From: ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis)
Subject: Re: alt.ev to be created tommorrow.
Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation Tech Central
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1992 05:17:21 GMT

 ev> == Eternal Vigilance <ev@tygra.Michigan.COM> 

 ev> If there are no objections, I will send a newgroup for alt.ev tommorrow.
 ev> This group will be for the discussion of Eternal Vigilance.    

 ev> This organization will have the goal of trying to get the public to 
 ev> exercise their rights under The Constitution to take back the government
 ev> which they have let slip through their hands.

 ev> Send all replies/questions/etc to ev@michigan.com

(1) ugly, stupid, and completely nondescriptive name.

(2) what's wrong with alt.society.civil-liberty?
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From: ajg@sp1.ccd.harris.com (Arnold Goldberg)
Newsgroups: alt.config
Subject: alt.invest.real-estate
Date: 13 Apr 92 20:27:28 GMT
Distribution: alt
Organization: Harris Controls and Compositions

I'm creating a newsgroup for investing in real-estate.
This will be an interim group, until misc.invest.real-estate get's established.
It's still in the RFD period right now.

The charter is along these lines:


 I'm in the process of putting together a newgroup for serious
 Real Estate Investors.
 
 Some of the proposed objectives:
 
 1) Share creative financing techniques
 2) Share information regarding aggressive tax avoidance
 3) Share "inside" information regarding mortgage applications (ie.
         what do mortgage companies want to see and what not)
 4) Keep a updated list of "exchangable" properties (see objective 2)
 5) A source of partnerships.
 6) And any others you might think of.
 
 Anyone who is interested, send me a note.
 
 
The reason i'm doing this is because i've got about 150 members on a 
mailing list and it's a hassle to maintain

Thanks

arnold

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Newsgroups: alt.config
From: maple@seas.gwu.edu (Maple Moriji)
Subject: Re: alt.music groups
Organization: George Washington University
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 16:39:15 GMT


aem@paris.cs.miami.edu (a.e.mossberg) writes:
: 
: Well, it looks like there is support for cleaning up the music groups in
: alt.... Who wants to break the news to the people in the groups?

I already did.

Maple

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From: jym@sybase.com (Jym Dyer)
Newsgroups: alt.config
Subject: Re: alt.fan.bill-watterson?  (Calvin & Hobbes)
Date: 10 Apr 92 18:06:20
Organization: The Naughty Peahen Party Line
	<1992Mar21.142118.10114@husc3.harvard.edu>
NNTP-Posting-Host: remarque.berkeley.edu
In-reply-to: pierce@husc4.harvard.edu's message of 21 Mar 92 19:21:17 GMT

>> Seems like there's plenty of reason to discuss the philosophy
>> propounded by the newspaper cartoon Calvin & Hobbes...
> We already had this conversation.  Whatever happened to
> rec.arts.comics.strips?

=o= When you wrote those words, it was still being voted
on.  Now, the vote is over, and the group has passed by a
landslides.

=o= Watterson fans, I'll see ya in r.a.c.strips!!!
    <_Jym_>
From: jonathan@mantis.co.uk (Jonathan Egre')
Newsgroups: alt.config
Subject: Where is alt.bass?
Date: 9 Apr 92 12:40:46 GMT
Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK.

There is a distinct lack of messages on alt.bass here at Mantis Consultants
- in fact there is just my own test message.

Is the lack of alt.bass a widespread problem?  Has the newsgroup been 
withdrawn without me noticing?  Am I asking this in the right place?
(Naturally, I can't ask on alt.bass and expect to see a reply!)

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Newsgroups: alt.config