HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: forb0004@student.tc.umn.edu (Eric Forbis )
Newsgroups: alt.config,rec.arts.books
Subject: Re: alt.fan.catch-22 (Was: Re: PROPOSAL: alt.fan.anne-rice)
Date: 13 Dec 92 08:32:03 GMT
Organization: University of Minnesota

In article <Bz5H4o.GHM@unix.amherst.edu> twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce) writes:
>In article <1992Dec12.031403.25703@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> jfurr@nyx.cs.du.edu (JKF) writes:
>
>>Hey!  I got an idea!  How about a group called alt.fan.catch-22?  I've
>>always been a big fan of Joseph Heller's masterpiece.  Yossarian Lives!
>
>Could it be put anywhere other than alt.fan?  How about
>alt.books.catch-22?  (Yes, I *know* it was a movie.  The book came
>first.  Ppppbpbpbpththth.)  alt.fan has become so bloated it's
>practically misc.misc.

I enjoy Heller's book as well, but why would you seriously consider the 
formation of a group for a single book, yet veto a group for a growing 
collection of best sellers by Anne Rice? 

Jeez, alt.books.catch-22 hasn't even gone through its mailing list phase 
yet... Whatta gyp.

How do you feel about going for a "alt.books.anne-rice" instead of simply 
another entry to the bloated fan classification?

---------

Eric Forbis      forb0004@student.tc.umn.edu
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From: kieran@world.std.com (Aaron L Dickey)
Subject: Re: Proposal: alt.tv.saved.by.the.bell
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 02:56:33 GMT

mcmahan@cs.unca.edu (Scott McMahan -- Genesis mailing list owner) writes:

>Well, there's alt.tv.90210 and alt.tv.fifteen, so I guess:

>alt.tv.saved.by.the.bell

>is the logical next step.

>Is anyone besides me interested in it?

Ever heard of rec.arts.tv?  Or alt.tasteless?

Newsgroups: alt.config
From: fenner@snobol.cs.psu.edu (Bill Fenner)
Subject: USENET groups don't go away either (was Re: New group proposal: alt.conservative.forum)
Organization: Penn State Computer Science
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 05:27:35 GMT

In article <BzF8wn.BCH@unix.amherst.edu> twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce) writes:
|If anything, alt groups are more permanent than Usenet
|groups.  The latter at least go away after a while if they are
|removed.

Heh... sure, maybe after about 4 years or so...  I still see several postings
a week for comp.sys.ibm.pc, which was voted out of existence in September,
1990.  The November news statistics say that it ranked #345, and has 53%
propogation and gets 152 articles a month, with only a 23% cross-posting
percentage (i.e. 117 articles/month posted only to comp.sys.ibm.pc).

  Bill
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From: rick@crick.ssctr.bcm.tmc.edu (Richard H. Miller)
Newsgroups: alt.config,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh
Subject: Re: New group proposal: alt.conservative.forum
Date: 17 Dec 1992 16:48:39 GMT
Organization: Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Tx
NNTP-Posting-Host: crick.ssctr.bcm.tmc.edu

In article <92352.102515KEL111@psuvm.psu.edu>, Kurt Ludwick <KEL111@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
> In article <BzDnnu.L9K@news.udel.edu>, roby@chopin.udel.edu (Scott W Roby) says:
> 
> >I vote for democracy in action -- no moderation.
> 
> And I agree.

Then you will have no problem with proposing the misc.activism.progressive
be unmoderated? (Actually I am surprised that nobody has proposed the
perfect name for this newsgroup --> misc.activism.conservative)


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Newsgroups: alt.config,alt.fan.bruce-becker
From: LIPSCOJA@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu (Andy Lipscomb)
Subject: Re: alt.flame.hairy-douchebag.bruce-becker
Organization: Vanderbilt University 
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 19:47:01 GMT
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.21

In <Dec17.145849.34302@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> arsmith@lamar.ColoState.EDU writes:

> Fer cryin' out loud, alt.net.personalities was created specifically for flaming
> hairy douchebags out on the net.  Why don't you take it there?  You don't
> have to newgroup or rmgroup anything.

Not to mention alt.fan.bruce-becker.


Andy Lipscomb
lipscoja@(ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu,vuctrvax.bitnet)
Don't blame me, I voted Libertarian.
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From: ap1i+@andrew.cmu.edu (Andrew C. Plotkin)
Newsgroups: alt.config,news.groups
Subject: Re: rec.arts.fantasy
Date: 11 Dec 92 09:32:47 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.Af_CnTy00gpI4OmmML
	<1992Dec9.233931.10723@leela.cs.orst.edu>
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Excerpts from netnews.news.groups: 9-Dec-92 Re: rec.arts.fantasy Paul
Cass@atlantis.CS.OR (1596)

> I think I have to agree with Terry here.  I too checked out sf.written and
> found the same thing.  Lots of science fiction...little or no fantasy.>

I did this experiment a few weeks ago, I can do it again...

Of the last 50 posts in sf.written, I counted 11 definitely about
fantasy (dragonlance, Wheel of Time, and the "categorizing fantasy"
thread.) There were 6 thoroughly genre-neutral (mostly about the writing
or publishing business), and 33 that I'd call sci.fic.-oriented (I was
deliberately being conservative -- classifying uncertain posts as
sci.fic.)

I don't want to take the time to do a longer count, but I estimate that
the ratio is even closer over the last 100 or 200.

I saw *no* posts that said "Discussion of that is inappropriate here
because it's fantasy, not science fiction." (And if there were a split,
such posts would spring up like mushrooms on a soggy lawn. *Flaming*
mushrooms. And they'd be crossposted.)

--Z

"And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these were the borogoves..."
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From: geoffb@coos.dartmouth.edu (Geoff Bronner)
Newsgroups: alt.config,news.groups
Subject: Re: rec.arts.fantasy
Date: 17 Dec 92 18:02:12 GMT
Reply-To: geoffb@Dartmouth.EDU
Organization: Amos Tuck School
Followups-To: news.groups
Disclaimer: I don't represent Dartmouth and Dartmouth doesn't represent me.

[Note Followups line! What's this doing in alt.config anyway???]

In <1992Dec16.172522.26109@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> skwatkin@nyx.cs.du.edu (Steven Watkins) writes:

> I really see the need for an alt.fantasy news group.  I read the sf news 
>groups and the specific fantasy author groups.  I like sf, but I *love*
>fantasy.  I would like to be able to talk about many different authors
>with others who share my interest in fantasy.  I would rather not force 
>sf fans to read fantasy posts as I am forced to read theirs now. 

As has been said before. The 'sf' in rec.arts.sf.* stands for 'speculative
fiction' not 'science fiction'. Discussion of fantasy belongs in the sf
groups as well.

-Geoff
--
geoffb@Dartmouth.EDU - Computing Support Consultant, Tuck School of Business

           "When will you peaople learn? We are NEVER outgunned!"
                           - _Off_Limits_
Newsgroups: alt.config
From: slb22@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Seth "the Lesser")
Subject: Re: New newsgroup proposal - alt.quotations
Organization: Generic American College Kids (G.A.C.K.)
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 02:33:46 GMT
Reply-To: slb22@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Seth "the Lesser")
X-Posted-From: cunixb.cc.columbia.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

alan.thew@liverpool.ac.uk (Alan Thew) writes:
>
>Why not issue a RFD for a talk group if you're talking about votes etc?

He just wants to make sure there are interested people out there, and he's
going about it in a conservative, mainstream-oriented way.

Seth L. Blumberg          \ Warning: This posting has been determined to cause
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    > No one I know shares my opinions, least of all Columbia University. <
From: taz@momad.li.ny.us (Jon Nowak)
Newsgroups: alt.config
Subject: sqahoodle
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 92 23:09:23 EST
Reply-To: taz@Momad.LI.NY.US (Jon Nowak)
Organization: Modem Madness BBS    1+516-295-9435

sqa

This message was brought to you by the letters "A"    
The number "3"  
and ~%A@momda.li.ny.us
'Be nice to me, I'm new at this'
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From: hwt@bcarh11a.BNR.CA (Henry Troup)
Newsgroups: alt.config,alt.geek,alt.net.personalities,alt.newbie
Subject: Re: more from Meredith
Date: 17 Dec 92 13:16:10 GMT
Reply-To: Henry.Troup@BNR.CA
Distribution: world
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd., Ottawa, Canada


|>>I HEREBY CALL FOR THE CREATION OF alt.flame.hairy-douchebag.bruce-becker!!

|>And then issue a rmgroup in order to see if Bruce Becker will forge a
newgroup

Normally I don't keep groups whose names I consider libellous or
insulting to particular people; in this case I might make an exception.
                  
Henry Troup - H.Troup@BNR.CA (Canada) - BNR owns but does not share my opinions
	       Legislated morality is the enemy of true morality
Newsgroups: alt.config,alt.mud,rec.games.mud,rec.games.mud.misc,rec.games.mud.admin,rec.games.mud.diku,alt.mud.t-rev.stomp.stomp.stomp,rec.games.mud.lp,rec.games.mud.tiny
From: ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis)
Subject: Re: alt.mud.logs,alt.mud.logs.d,alt.mud.fiction,alt.mud.fiction.d
Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation Tech Central
	<1992Dec11.133913.21067@oz.plymouth.edu>
	<1992Dec12.023513.23986@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 05:27:17 GMT

J> == JKF  <jfurr@nyx.cs.du.edu>

 J> The majority opposed adding these groups to rec.*.  They did not vote on
 J> whether there should be groups of this sort at all, as there was no
 J> question concerning this on the ballot.  Seventy-some people indicated
 J> interest in the groups for whatever reason.  As the groups prosper and
 J> succeed, perhaps more will take up the banner.

Note that more people voted NO than YES, something that happens
extremely rarely.  Don't pull a Jyrki, Joel; the groups weren't
necessary in rec.*, and they're not necessary in alt.* EITHER.

Put the seventy-some people on a mailing list if you must.
--
Christopher K. Davis      | ``Usenet seems to run much like the Kif (or,
<ckd@eff.org>   EFF #14   |   for the TV generation, Klingon) high command.
System Administrator, EFF |   Whoever takes action and can be heard wins.''
+1 617 864 0665  [CKD1]   |   --Peter da Silva <peter@ferranti.com>
Newsgroups: alt.config
From: shulick@navajo.ucs.indiana.edu (Sam Hulick)
Subject: Re: PROPOSAL: alt.questions
Organization: Vallen Software
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 00:09:54 GMT

In article <BzJ00A.9nu@unix.amherst.edu>, twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce) says most sayishly:
>Don't we already have misc.misc?

misc.misc is too misc.  It has more than just questions.  People
reporting stuff, saying things.. IMO, trash.

-- 
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From: pashley@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Montykins)
Newsgroups: alt.config
Subject: Re: RESULT: comp.society.folklore unmoderation fails 729:151
Date: 19 Dec 92 21:45:14 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego

In article <944@blue.cis.pitt.edu>, tjw+@pitt.edu (TJ Wood) writes:
>
>OR it could have been from those "flame-bait" postings that Joel and I put
>in rec.arts.startrek entitled "Lost in Space Was Better" in which we set a
>"reply-to:" address of "vote-no@sq.com".  ;-)  As I said, if you're going
>to commit VOTE FRAUD, you've got to use IMAGINATION!!!
>

<laughter>

But, before somebody starts screaming "revote!", let's keep in mind
that even if only a TENTH of the "No" votes count, the vote STILL
FAILS by the 100-vote margin.

Shame on you, Terry. Shame!
>
>"Laugh while you can, Monkey Boy!"                        - Lord "John" Warfin

That's "Whorfin", Terry. Sheesh, how many times do people correct
you on that? I've seen Kibo do it twice . . .

 -Paul "Monty" Ashley
   (Source: The book and the script)

-- 
All just the opinions of pashley@sdcc13.ucsd.edu.
Newsgroups: alt.config,alt.atheism
From: harry@timesink.chi.il.us (Harold Platypus)
Subject: Re: PROPOSAL: alt.santaism
Organization: Big Bulging Buffalo Bladders -R- Us
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 18:50:10 GMT

In article <1992Dec12.060620.23826@netcom.com> Jef Poskanzer <jef@netcom.com> writes:
>I propose a new group dedicated to discussion of the religion Santaism.

This is great! I saw him, I really did! He appeared floating over my
toilet the other day... Glowing like a dime-store X-mas tree. He had
holy stigmata and was bleeding from holes in his thighs where millions
of spoiled brats have sat over the years. "It never really heals...",
the apparition moaned. Just then, the cloudy image turned into a
thunderhead and rained red and green drops into the bowl. With a final
thunderous clap, the toilet flushed and I heard a gurgelling voice,
"Merry X-mas to all, and too all, Good Knight!"

- Harry
Newsgroups: alt.config
From: pashdown@javelin.sim.es.com (Pete Ashdown)
Subject: Re: PROPOSAL : New group alt.swimming-with-clothes
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp.
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 18:23:45 GMT

oldman@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Tig Stone) writes:

>>   alt.swimming-with-clothes.

>> Because this is a rather exotic topic. The traffic would probably be quite
>> small, and I don't think it would suffice for a group in the rec.sports.*
>> hierarchy.

>	Do you honestly think that there would be ANY traffic in this
>group?  Have you tried starting threads on this topic elsewhere?  Is
>it innundating the newsgroups elsewhere so much that an alt group is
>necessary?  It seems to me that this is a very out-in-left-field topic
>of conversation, and doesn't warrant a newsgroup (IMHO, of course).

What are you kidding me?  I went swimming in a tuxedo, a heavy snowmobile
jumpsuit, and a stocking cap the other day.  It was FANTASTIC!
-- 
			What's the frequency, Kenneth?

DISCLAIMER: My writings have NOTHING to do with my employer.  Keep it that way.
Pete Ashdown    pashdown@slack.sim.es.com    ...uunet!slack.sim.es.com!pashdown
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From: bloc1469@ee.ee.uwm.edu (Gregory R Block)
Newsgroups: alt.config,alt.sys.amiga.uucp
Subject: Re: proposal alt.sys.amiga.cnews/cnews.patches
Date: 21 Dec 1992 04:43:10 GMT
Organization: Electrical Engineering Dept. University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.2.33

In article <rp7as*ST7@kink.PhaedraV.On.Ca> hugh@kink.PhaedraV.On.Ca (Hugh D. Gamble) writes:
>We need a formal discussion on the creation of comp.sys.amiga.news.sw.

>I propose instead, that a formal discussion be started for the
>creation of comp.sys.amiga.uucp (the success of which is almost a
>foregone conclusion, I think) and possibly at the same time a
>discussion can be started regarding the creation of a group such as
>comp.sys.amiga.news.sw for the discussion of Amiga specific news s/w.
>Possibly a comp.sys.amiga.news.sw.patches is also warranted, or the
>scripts and code can just be posted to comp.sys.amiga.uucp.patches
>along with the occasional update of uucp and related s/w that
>currently comes through alt.sys.amiga.uucp.patches.

I agree.  However, there is another part to consider.

With the coming of SANA-II and new network software, and the growing
demand for networking across the ENTIRE Amiga community, people have
begun to realize that networks can be extremely difficult to set up.
There is a growing need for some place to discuss this.  This need
will take a dramatic jump when we see 3.1 come into existence, and
standard networking support becomes integral to the operating system
of everyone's Amiga.

I propose not a "uucp" group, which is merely a facet of what
networking is on the amiga, but a different group altogether.

Comp.sys.amiga.networks should become a reality.

This could cover ALL Amiga networking software, from ParNet, to DNet
(which has been seeing increased usage as of lately due to some
innovative software being made as servers for it, and ports across
platforms and away from BSD being worked on), and from TCP/IP and SLIP
with C='s new AS225 software to peer-to-peer networking and LocalTalk
boards.

There is going to be a leap of information in this area, and if one is
not created in anticipation of this group, you're going to see a lot
of scattered posts about it.

I'll take SLIP and GfxBase's X as an example.  How many times have you
heard about it?  More importantly, where?  It varies, from
comp.sys.amiga.applications, to comp.sys.amiga.datacomm, and even in
.programmer.  Now, I'm not proposing getting GfxBase their own group
to avdvertise in.  ;)  However, getting .networks into the Amiga
hierarchy might just be a really, really good idea.

Lets do it now, and not wait for 3.1 to flood our mailboxes and nntp
servers with things that are off-topic with nowhere to go...

Greg



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From: Jym Dyer <jym@mica.berkeley.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.config,alt.religion.kibology,alt.net.personalities,alt.slack
Subject: alt.flame.hairy-douchebag.bruce-becker
Date: 17 Dec 1992 00:41:27 GMT
Organization: The Naughty Peahen Party Line
	<OSA.92Dec10195222@wilbur.unh.edu>
NNTP-Posting-Host: remarque.berkeley.edu
In-reply-to: osa@wilbur.unh.edu's message of 11 Dec 92 00:52:22 GMT

> I HEREBY CALL FOR THE CREATION OF alt.flame.hairy-douchebag.bruce-becker!!

=o= Don't do it.  Send out an rmgroup.  That way, the person who
would newgroup it would be Becker himself.
    <_Jym_>
From: mgm@world.std.com (michael g moncur)
Newsgroups: alt.config
Subject: Re: 'alt' group proposed - alt.quotations
Date: 20 Dec 92 19:18:27 GMT
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA

As for Bartlett's and Oxford's quotation dictionaries, I have both. 
Neither of them claims to be all-inclusive...  And neither of them is. 
Both of these select quotations based on how popular or well-known they
are, anyway.  There are other books, such as "The 637 best things anybody
ever said" (my favorite) and "Peter's Quotations" that are more picky,
i.e. only including quotes that, basically, the author liked.  These make
for better reading than Oxford's or Bartlett's, but are even LESS
all-inclusive.
 
Basically, there are millions of quotations out there.  Each book includes
a subset of these.  Many of us keep quote files of our own with yet
another subset of these...  And the collected postings of alt.quotations
will be yet another subset.
 
There will, however, be a FAQ - I believe we've even got an FTP site lined
up for quotes and quote-related files.  And I'll make a list of quotation
collections (there are more than 2 - I have about 10 myself.)


-- 
~`~`michael moncur - mgm@world.std.com / sysop@onlybbs.via.mind.org ~`~`
Newsgroups: alt.config
From: nadeau@bnr.ca (Rheal Nadeau)
Subject: Re: This is ONLY a concept
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd., Ottawa
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 01:13:52 GMT

In article <1992Dec13.234936.23007@nevada.edu> thealien@nevada.edu (Minstrel Alien) writes:
>	Well, while I have been informed that a newsgroup would be...
>
>		not needed....
>
>			The name would work!
>
>	Any BOC fan KNOWS what BOC means!  Now, if we could add the two dots 
>above the 'o', that would be great..

It seems this is now academic, but what about the more casual fan, the
potential fan-to-be, who maybe likes "Don't Fear the Reaper" and would
like to find out more about Blue Oyster Cult?  This pretty well
describes me - I would have trouble finding a "boc" group.

I do agree about the punctuation, though, since there's supposed to be
an acute accent over the "e" in "Rheal".  :-)

The Rhealist - Rheal Nadeau - nadeau@bnr.ca - Speaking only for myself
Newsgroups: alt.config,rec.arts.books,alt.non.sequitur
From: jfurr@nyx.cs.du.edu (JKF)
Subject: alt.fan.catch-22 (Was: Re: PROPOSAL: alt.fan.anne-rice)
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 92 03:14:03 GMT

In article <Bz2KFG.DCn@unix.amherst.edu> twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce) writes:
>In article <1992Dec10.220306.4543@blaze.cs.jhu.edu> arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu (Ken Arromdee) writes:
>
>>In article <Bz2A9B.D31@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> ksdavis@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Karleen S. Davis) writes:
>>
>>>>This is a catch-22.  If he says no, you can reply there's no need for the
>>>>newsgroup.  If he says yes, you can reply "then why not just use
>>>>rec.arts.books"?
>>>
>>>I thought that was the point.
>>
>>But this catch-22 applies to _any_ proposed group.
>
>If someone can demonstrate why rec.arts.books would not be an
>appropriate group, then I'll concede that question.  It's not a
>Catch-22.
>
>I still doubt the utility of an alt.fan.anne-rice newsgroup, for
>reasons I've already explained.

Hey!  I got an idea!  How about a group called alt.fan.catch-22?  I've
always been a big fan of Joseph Heller's masterpiece.  Yossarian Lives!

Heh heh heh heh heh.

Joel "What do you mean, you can't win?" Furr
Newsgroups: alt.config
From: micah@stein.u.washington.edu (Micah Anderson)
Subject: Re: 'alt' group proposed - alt.quotations
Organization: University of Washington
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 20:10:34 GMT


I haven't heard a nay for alt.quotations, lets create it and stop talking
about it... 
Newsgroups: alt.config
From: slb22@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Seth "the Lesser")
Subject: Re: New newsgroup proposal - alt.quotations
Organization: Generic American College Kids (G.A.C.K.)
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 15:22:49 GMT
Reply-To: slb22@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Seth "the Lesser")
X-Posted-From: cunixb.cc.columbia.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce) writes:
>slb22@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Seth "the Lesser") writes:
>>
>>Really, the function of alt.motd seems to me to be more appropriate for
>>apocryphal sayings, stuff you "just made up," Best of talk.bizarre, etc.  For
>>alt.quotations, we want the real stuff only, correctly worded not misquoted,
>>with citations of original sources, I should think.
>
>If you're going to be that specific, I'd advise moderating it.

Why? alt.shenanigans has a specific focus (*harmless* pranks), and although we
keep having to remind people when they get too far away from the central
focus, people mostly seem to stay close to it these days.  IMHO.

There's a difference between a newsgroup with a sharply defined and limited
topic area, not accepting anything outside that area, which had better be
moderated, and a newsgroup that has a specific central focus, but often strays
from it, which needn't be.  See, I just said, "we *want* the real stuff only,"
not "anyone posting an incorrect or unsubstantiated quotation will be shot
through the lungs."

Seth L. Blumberg          \ Warning: This posting has been determined to cause
slb22@columbia.edu (play)   \ cancer in laboratory animals.  Please make sure
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    > No one I know shares my opinions, least of all Columbia University. <