HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: ez026992@snagglepuss.ucdavis.edu
Newsgroups: alt.config,rec.humor.d
Subject: Re: alt.ascii-art ?  (was: alt.fan.cows)
Date: 8 Jan 93 04:50:41 GMT
Followup-To: alt.config
Organization: Computing Services, UC Davis

Could someone please e-mail me the 100 question purity test,
the one I've seen isn't TOO harsh, no 'have you had
sex underwater while drinking tequila question'.
Newsgroups: alt.config,rec.humor.d
From: twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce)
Subject: Re: alt.fan.cows ... or perhaps alt.humor.ascii-art
Keywords: hi tim
Organization: Elitist Usenet Administrators, Stuff and Nonsense Division
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 00:21:08 GMT

In article <C094IC.MFF@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jal41820@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Smiley) writes:

>durrell@pinball.arcade.uiowa.edu (Bryant Durrell) writes:
>
>:)Joel, if you want to get taken seriously, you must stop doing
>:)things like proposing joke groups (to the extent of a CFV)
>:)and posting ASCII art in alt.config.  Every time you do 
>
>Joel has said more than enough times he's serious about this proposal.

But *really*, there *really* is a wolf *this* time, and he's going to
eat me up!  *Really* there is!  I'm *serious*!

-- 
____ Tim Pierce                / 
\  / twpierce@unix.amherst.edu /               Rocks say goodbye.
 \/ (BITnet: TWPIERCE@AMHERST) / 
Newsgroups: alt.config,rec.humor.d
From: foxx@foxxjac.b17a.ingr.com (AJ Foxx)
Subject: Re: alt.fan.cows
Reply-To: foxx@foxxjac.b17a.ingr.com
Organization: "n.  A group united by a common interest or goal"
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 14:59:43 GMT

Is there a newsgroups appropriate for the posting of
ascii art?  If so, someone please do tell.  If not, I
would not be deeply wounded by the consideration of an 
alt.ascii-art newsgroup in which to post cow art; however,
I think limiting such postings only to cows is a bit too 
narrow.  As for the remaining possibilities of cow related
humor, I would say build threads in the rec.humor groups
until sufficient interest is either evident or not.  
  --AJ
From: tjw@vms.cis.pitt.edu
Newsgroups: alt.config
Subject: Re: alt.crackers
Date: 7 Jan 93 21:34:42 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

In article <C0I1u4.Axr@cs.psu.edu>, flee@cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee) writes:

> Someone keeps trying to make alt.crackers a moderated group.  It's
> probably either a smart cracker or a dumb admin.  I'm going to ignore
> attempts to make it moderated at this site.

I'm ignoring it altogether.
From: oea@usit.uio.no (Odd Einar Aurbakken)
Newsgroups: alt.config
Subject: Re: alt.sewer (Was: Re: Proposal: alt.answers)
Date: 10 Jan 93 15:03:29 GMT
Organization: University of Oslo

Yes, I see it now, you _are_ really serious about alt.fan.cows.

logout and get a life, or logout and let us get on with ours.

-oea
Xref: sparky alt.config:8383 talk.bizarre:44318 alt.religion.kibology:5724 alt.folklore.urban:33214 alt.fan.matt.welsh:213 alt.non.sequitur:923
From: jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (J. Furr)
Newsgroups: alt.config,talk.bizarre,alt.religion.kibology,alt.folklore.urban,alt.fan.matt-welsh,alt.fan.matt.welsh,alt.non.sequitur
Subject: Re: alt.sewer (Was: Re: Proposal: alt.answers)
Date: 11 Jan 93 18:32:41 GMT
Organization: Virginia Center for Lemur Fandom, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA (subscribe to alt.fan.lemurs TODAY)

In article <28343@dog.ee.lbl.gov> TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan) writes:
>In article <1993Jan11.165055.26978@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> jfurr@nyx.cs.du.edu (Joel Furr) writes:
>  +In article <1659@blue.cis.pitt.edu> tjw@vms.cis.pitt.edu writes:
>  +>In article <1993Jan9.013940.16249@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, jfurr@nyx.cs.du.edu (Joel Furr) writes:
>  +>
>  +>>>This is a lie.
>  +>
>  +>>>As is this.
>  +>
>  +>> Hey, forget all that.  The issue of whether Jonathon Kamens censored
>  +>> articles in news.answers is irrelevant.  We're talking about a proposal
>  +>> for alt.answers here, and it's obvious to ME that alt.answers is a bad
>  +>> name for it.  Why, that would imply some kind of order in alt!
>  +>
>  +>> No, a far better name for a group which would contain FAQ articles about
>  +>> various alt. groups would be 'alt.sewer'.  Descriptive, apropos, and
>  +>> oh-so-timely.
>  +>
>  +>
>  +>I think you have a point here. Since ALT is the uncontested "sewer" of the
>  +>net, the group SHOULD be called "alt.sewer".  That's the first and foremost
>  +>ANSWER that the group would drive home. ;-)
>  +>
>  +>Or we could call it "alt.shell" after the "Shell Oil ANSWER MAN" who used to
>  +>advise "little women" on how to start their car and when to fill it up with
>  +>gas.
>  +>
>  +>> Let's newgroup alt.sewer and appoint Kibo, Terry Chan, and Mark_Gooley the
>  +>> co-moderators of it immediately.
>  +>
>  +>Kibo would tell you that "You're Allowed" to nominate him and Terry Chan would
>  +>probably advise you to swallow a couple of Alkaseltzers.  I've never met
>  +>"Mark_Gooley" (underscore required, I assume) so I can't be sure what he would
>  +>think of this.
>  +
>  +Twas a typo.  That should have been Mark. Gooley.
>  +
>  +Kibo?  Terry?  Mark.?  Do you accept the co-moderatorship of alt.sewer?
>
>Hey, I'll take any offer to co-moderate a group with Kibo (Mark. , I 
>dunno him).
>
>Terry "Take two and post again in the morning" Chan

Mark. Gooley is known for bizarre postings in the talk.bizarre family of
newsgroups.  If he's not interested, perhaps Matt Welsh would be.  Matt?
Newsgroups: alt.config,rec.humor.d
From: jfurr@nyx.cs.du.edu (Joel Furr)
Subject: Re: alt.fan.cows
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: Mon, 4 Jan 93 18:18:26 GMT

In article <1993Jan4.145943.2006@msdhsv.ingr.com> foxx@foxxjac.b17a.ingr.com writes:
>Is there a newsgroups appropriate for the posting of
>ascii art?  If so, someone please do tell.  If not, I
>would not be deeply wounded by the consideration of an 
>alt.ascii-art newsgroup in which to post cow art; however,
>I think limiting such postings only to cows is a bit too 
>narrow.  As for the remaining possibilities of cow related
>humor, I would say build threads in the rec.humor groups
>until sufficient interest is either evident or not.  
>  --AJ

Do you want a group called alt.art.ascii?  I'd support it if several dozen
other people also wanted it... otherwise, we'll just go on posting cow art
in rec.pets and damn the torpedoes. :)

          (__)                                           
          (oo)                                                     Joel Furr
   /-------\/                                     jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu
  / |     ||                                            Blacksburg, Virginia
 *  ||----||                                                             USA
    ^^    ^^



Xref: sparky alt.config:8363 comp.sys.ibm.pc.games:29838
From: roholdr@ccu.umanitoba.ca (R Ross Holder Jr)
Newsgroups: alt.config,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Subject: PROPOSAL FOR NEW NEWSGROUP: alt.games.vga.planets
Date: 10 Jan 93 17:08:46 GMT
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

It was drawn to my attention previously and has since become of concern to me
(as I have taken an interest in the game as of late) that there is a desire
to establish a newsgroup dedicated to the VGA Planets game.  Its purpose and
scope would similar to that of rec.games.empire and would divert traffic
from comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.  (Such traffic, it may be argued, is insigificant.
However, it's precisely this insignificance that contributes to VGA Planets
and related articles getting lost amongst the doezens of subject headings.)

I asked our mail administrator here to start the group, and he is willing
provided there is some discussion of the matter.  I would imagine that we'd
see about as much use of the group as we see with rec.games.* groups and
with the group FAQs about VGA Planets FTP sites may be continued and
maintained on a more routine basis.  Further, any mailing lists may now be
replaced with the convenience of such a newsgroup.

Since my news admin is watching, if you feel you'd like to see this news-
group begun, just say so in even the briefest of follow-up articles here.
(Make sure the post is visible to alt.config.)  You contribution will be
an important part of seeing this newsgroup - for which I believe there is
significant demand, and whose time is long overdue - finally started.
-- 
R. Ross Holder, Jr.    INTERNET: roholdr@ccu.umanitoba.ca   (Winnipeg, Manitoba)
Department of Philosophy   ---Season's-Greetings---   The University of Manitoba
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
DISCLAIMER: The views I express are not neccessarily those of the U of Manitoba.
Newsgroups: alt.config
From: doug@cc.ysu.edu (Doug Sewell)
Subject: Re: Some sort of, errr, hygeine group?
Organization: Bush in 92 ? NOT!
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 22:29:43 GMT

Eccentric One (an1463@anon.penet.fi) wrote:
: It would be nice to have a group to talk about hygeine(sp?).  Seriously.
: Sometimes I want to ask stuff like: what shaving creams should I stay
: away from, or questions about soaps or cologne or something, you know.

Soc.men, soc.women, and sci.med would be appropriate, depending on the
question.  I don't think a new newsgroup is necessary.

I also don't think it's necessary to post this request through an anonymous
posting service... but I guess that's just me.
--
Doug Sewell, Tech Support, Computer Center, Youngstown State University
doug@cc.ysu.edu	   doug@ysub.bitnet	<internet>!cc.ysu.edu!doug

cat core | uuencode bunny.dropping | mail jp@tygra.michigan.com
Newsgroups: alt.config
From: dennett@kodak.kodak.com (Charlie Dennett)
Subject: Suggested alt group: alt.culture.new-england
Organization: Eastman Kodak Company
Distribution: na
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 93 13:40:20 GMT

Having just seen the group alt.culture.ny-upstate, I was wondering
if a group like alt.culture.new-england might not be reasonable.
I grew up in eastern Massachusetts and still have family there.
Other family members are also in Maine.  I always liked
New England.  (I'm in western New York now.)


Charles Dennett          | Rochester Distributed Computer Services
Mail Stop 01925          | Customer Technical Support Services
Eastman Kodak Company    | Internet: dennett@kodak.com
Rochester, NY 14650-1925 | 
Newsgroups: alt.config,talk.bizarre,alt.religion.kibology,alt.folklore.urban,alt.fan.matt-welsh,alt.fan.matt.welsh,alt.non.sequitur
From: mdw@db.TC.Cornell.EDU (Matt Welsh)
Subject: Re: alt.sewer (Was: Re: Proposal: alt.answers)
Organization: Jim's Burger Hut 
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 22:45:49 GMT

In article <C0pCuJ.EwF@polaris.async.vt.edu> jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (J. Furr) writes:
>>  +Kibo?  Terry?  Mark.?  Do you accept the co-moderatorship of alt.sewer?
>>
>>Hey, I'll take any offer to co-moderate a group with Kibo (Mark. , I 
>>dunno him).
>
>Mark. Gooley is known for bizarre postings in the talk.bizarre family of
>newsgroups.  If he's not interested, perhaps Matt Welsh would be.  Matt?

Er. I thought I already did moderate alt.sewer. 

Sorry, I'm confused. That's comp.os.linux.announce. Dammit, with all of these
postings, it's hard to tell these days. Maybe we can make that a mailing list 
instead.

mdw

-- 
Matt Welsh     mdw@tc.cornell.edu     Cornell Theory Center
  "It's a Katana, ya Midwestern computer geek." --Tom Payne
From: twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
Newsgroups: alt.config
Subject: Re: alt.ascii-art
Date: 7 Jan 1993 05:59:19 GMT
Organization: Department of Redundancy Department
Reply-To: TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.12.117

twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce) writes:

  +}I'd suggest putting it under alt.binaries.  Although the posts in
  +}question are not exactly "binaries" in the traditional sense, they're
  +}more or less part of the same genre as the rest of the
  +}alt.binaries.pictures crowd and tend to take up inordinate amounts of
  +}space for questionable gain.

I'd just love the name alt.binaries.but.really.ascii.pictures.  If
it goes this way, I might even try some ascii art myself.

Terry  Chan
--
Energy and Environment Division   | Internet:  TWChan@lbl.gov
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory      | 
Berkeley, California  USA  94720  | Yeah, right.
Newsgroups: alt.config
From: twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce)
Subject: alt.ascii-art
Organization: Elitist Usenet Administrators, Stuff and Nonsense Division
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 00:18:58 GMT

In article <1993Jan4.214141.5920@msdhsv.ingr.com> foxx@foxxjac.b17a.ingr.com writes:

>I think it would be better to stick with a single hyphenated name
>(alt.ascii-art) rather than try and create an extra heirarchy.

I'd suggest putting it under alt.binaries.  Although the posts in
question are not exactly "binaries" in the traditional sense, they're
more or less part of the same genre as the rest of the
alt.binaries.pictures crowd and tend to take up inordinate amounts of
space for questionable gain.

(In fact, I'd suggest just trashing the whole idea and posting to
rec.humor instead, but hey, I'm just another evil news administrator.)

-- 
____ Tim Pierce                / 
\  / twpierce@unix.amherst.edu /               Rocks say goodbye.
 \/ (BITnet: TWPIERCE@AMHERST) / 
Xref: sparky alt.config:8298 rec.humor.d:2893
From: jon@vector0.SAC.CA.US  (Dazed N. Confused)
Newsgroups: alt.config,rec.humor.d
Subject: Re: alt.fan.cows ... or perhaps alt.humor.ascii-art
Keywords: hi tim
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 93 17:56:23 PST
Organization: Vector Zero

fox@rei.com (Fuzzy Fox) writes:

> And even *then* there might not be enough support.  But a mailing list
> is often a good idea.  Besides, mail reaches farther than news anyway.

     Sure, sure, sure, lets start posting 100k files to a
network that doesn't transmit things *compressed*.  Why not?
And you can even slip it through a site that doesn't
subscribe.. with a seperate 100k message, for every user!

[ that was sarcasm. ]

     Why not just create alt.fan.warlord.pictures or something,
and most ascii things there?  Or maybe alt.best.of.internet.pictures,
or maybe..

--Jon

   jon@vector0.SAC.CA.US                     Life is like a beet.
   DOD#2600

Newsgroups: alt.config,rec.humor.d
From: rorschak@daimi.aau.dk (Jesper Lauridsen)
Subject: Re: alt.fan.cows ... or perhaps alt.humor.ascii-art
Keywords: hi tim
Organization: Danish Trainspotter Society
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 93 15:56:16 GMT

jon@vector0.SAC.CA.US  (Dazed N. Confused) writes:

>     Why not just create alt.fan.warlord.pictures or something,
>and most ascii things there? 

That would only be for ascii pictures seen in signatures. 
alt.ascii.pictures would be better IMHO.
-- 
I have things to do and News to read
From: cgd@stinson.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou)
Newsgroups: alt.config
Subject: PROPOSAL: alt.fan.babak-sehari
Date: 6 Jan 93 23:15:31 GMT
Organization: Kernel Hackers 'r' Us
NNTP-Posting-Host: stinson.cs.berkeley.edu

i proposet alt.fan.babak-sehari

why?

because anyone with the guts to try to post something like the following,
automatically, to every newsgroup they have access to deserves a fan club!

->Newsgroups: alt.vampyres
->Path: agate!spool.mu.edu!caen!destroyer!news.iastate.edu!du139-206.cc.iastat.edu!sehari
->From: sehari@iastate.edu (Babak Sehari)
->Subject: What new innovation, software or products do you want to see?
->Message-ID: <sehari.726197155@du139-206.cc.iastate.edu>
->Followup-To: poster
->Originator: sehari@du139-206.cc.iastate.edu
->Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System)
->Organization: Iowa State University of Science and Technology, Ames, Iowa.
->Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 01:25:55 GMT
->Lines: 23
->
->---
->
->What type of new innovation, software or products do you want to be
->introduced to the market place.  No answer is stupid.  The things
->that might be unachievable to you, might be very easy to produce
->by others.  You could become part of history by initiating the process of
->innovation.
->
->Send your answers, along with it's possible applications to me via
->Email.  We might be able to produce things that you might never thought
->possible, for you. My Email Address is sehari@iastate.edu.
->
->Thank you.
->
->                       With highest regards,
->                            Babak   Sehari.
->
->P.S.  This message is being automatically posted to all unix wide bbs'. 
->This post does not mean that I approve or disapprove this newsgroup.  Also,
->the moderator of the moderated newsgroups, such as rec.humor.funny, should 
->decide if they want this posting in their newsgroup.
->
->--


i suppose that this proposal should be crossposted *everywhere*, but
that'd make me worthy of an alt.fan.* group...


cgd
--
Chris G. Demetriou                                    cgd@cs.berkeley.edu

"Sometimes it is better to have twenty million instructions by
        Friday than twenty million instructions per second." -- Wes Clark
From: tjw@vms.cis.pitt.edu (TJ Wood)
Newsgroups: alt.config
Subject: Re: alt.fan.cows
Date: 5 Jan 93 22:30:52 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

In article <1993Jan5.165131.15829@rei.com>, fox@rei.com (Fuzzy Fox) writes:
> jfurr@nyx.cs.du.edu (Joel Furr) writes:

>>Joel posts explanation of why he thinks alt.humor.cows would be a good idea.
>>Weirdo at Chicago posts hateful flame
>>Weirdo at U of Virginia posts hateful flame

>>Joel posts further explanation of why he thinks alt.humor.cows would work
>>Weirdo at Chicago posts hateful flame
>>Weirdo at U of Virginia posts hateful flame

> Notice the pattern.  It starts with "Joel posts."  If the cause were
> removed, the effects would not surface.

On soc.women you'd get flamed to a crisp for "blaming the victim"! ;-)

Terry
-- 
        INTERNET: tjw+@pitt.edu         BITNET: TJW@PITTVMS
"Laugh while you can, Monkey Boy!"                        - Lord "John" Warfin
"There can be only one!"                                  - The Highlander
"There should have been only one. I want my money back!"  - Terry
Xref: sparky alt.config:8331 alt.culture.ny-upstate:345
From: whelan@sbphy.physics.ucsb.edu (John T. whelan)
Newsgroups: alt.config,alt.culture.ny-upstate
Subject: Re: New newsgroup proposal: alt.culture.ny-upstate
Date: 8 Jan 93 19:21:27 GMT
Followup-To: alt.config

>Dan Tasman (dtasman@NMSU.edu) wrote:

>: Questions that might be asked, so I'll answer them now ...

>: * WHY NOT A GROUP LIMITED TO NEW YORK STATE, FOR INSTANCE NY.UPSTATE?

>: There are many displaced people from Upstate New York (UNY)[...]

	Hear, hear!  After growing up in Kingston and going to college
in Ithaca, I find myself in grad school in Southern California.  I'd
say members of the "diaspora" have as much if not more need for access
to this group, to keep in touch with things.  NYS residents get to be
there all the time; I'm glad we at least get to talk about it.  (Now
if I could just figure out how to download cider and bagels...)
						John Whelan

	
--
	"This is that thing you call sarcasm, isn't it?"
				-- Ford Prefect, _Mostly_Harmless_
Newsgroups: alt.config
From: rhuss+@EDRC.CMU.EDU (Robert Huss)
Subject: Re: Proposal: alt.answers
Organization: Carnegie Mellon University
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 22:14:21 GMT

In article <1663@blue.cis.pitt.edu>, tjw@vms.cis.pitt.edu writes:

[really long, great, amusing in your face aimed at  poor Jonathan I. Kamens]

APPLAUSE!

	Ah, that was good reading.  I really wish I had read all the posts
leading up to that, but alas, I missed them.  I really hope, rather than
indignantly posting:
	"Ah, well, I see now.  Well the joke is on me I guess. Hmph."
Mr. Kamens responds at length so we can see another one of those.

	Once again:
APPLAUSE!

Bob "can I borrow those practical joke books, Terry?" Huss
From: magnus@thep.lu.se (Magnus Olsson)
Newsgroups: alt.config
Subject: Re: What new innovation, software or products do you want to see?
Date: 5 Jan 93 09:43:51 GMT
Organization: Theoretical Physics, Lund University, Sweden

In article <sehari.726196267@lisa.ecss.iastate.edu> sehari@iastate.edu (Babak Sehari) writes:
>P.S.  This message is being automatically posted to all unix wide bbs'. 
>This post does not mean that I approve or disapprove this newsgroup.  Also,
>the moderator of the moderated newsgroups, such as rec.humor.funny, should 
>decide if they want this posting in their newsgroup.

Anybody want to place a bet on how much flame mail this poor bozo (who
didn't even have the wits to crosspost rather than post separately to
N different newsgroups) will receive? The year seems off to a good
start... NOT!

              Magnus Olsson                | \e+      /_
    Department of Theoretical Physics      |  \  Z   / q
        University of Lund, Sweden         |   >----<           
 magnus@thep.lu.se, thepmo@seldc52.bitnet  |  /      \===== g
PGP key available via finger or on request | /e-      \q
Newsgroups: alt.config
From: sridhar@asuvax.eas.asu.edu (Sridhar Venkataraman )
Subject: Re: Proposal: alt.answers
Organization: ASU, Valley of the Sun(s), AZ
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 19:56:44 GMT

Jef Poskanzer <jef@netcom.com> writes:
)magnus@thep.lu.se (Magnus Olsson):
)}dclunie@pax.tpa.com.au writes:

)}>I know there will probably be a little bit of a problem with noisy replies 
)}>and questions, 
)}
)}"A little"? That must be the understatement of the year!

I agree. The "kodak" postings on alt.sources take the cake. 

)I repeat the third alternative: self-moderation, like alt.hackers.

1. Who is authorised to cancel inappropriate postings?
2. Who gets to decide what is inappropriate?

Not all people are dissatisfied with Jonathan's moderation or
impressed with alt hierarchy's lack of order. And the case of
alt.hackers is IMO not comparable with alt.answers.

)Jef

Sridhar.
--
Sridhar Venkataraman			sridhar@asuvax.eas.asu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.config
From: flee@cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee)
Subject: alt.crackers
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 19:51:38 GMT

Someone keeps trying to make alt.crackers a moderated group.  It's
probably either a smart cracker or a dumb admin.  I'm going to ignore
attempts to make it moderated at this site.
--
Xref: sparky alt.config:8387 rec.humor.d:2910