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Newsgroups: alt.config
From: rchilder@us.oracle.com (Richard Childers)
Subject: Re: Proposal: alt.herbalism
Organization: Memes-R-Us
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 22:54:18 GMT
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georgec@eng.umd.edu (George B. Clark) writes:

>Fine. The president of Duke University and their Board of Directors
>will be receiving by certified mail printouts of all your postings
>in this thread.
>
>Enjoy you laugh for the next few days, while you can, because it is going
>to be short lived. I regret that you are going to have to learn one
>of life's hard lessons in this manner. Believe me. I take no pleasure
>in this. I wish you all the best.

Oh, dear !! Has someone been forging postings from news@duke _again_ ? (-:

-- richard


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From: v124jw4y@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Benjamin R Pierce)
Newsgroups: alt.config
Subject: Re: alt.comics.lnh (bad name!)
Date: 14 Sep 92 15:59:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

Just throwing my support into the ring for alt.comics.lnh.  Also, a question:
will it be a group strictly for the LNH storyline?  Or more like an alt.comics.
creative group? Also, will it be moderated (so we don't get 15,000 alternate
storylines branching off every day)?


                                             --Ben
                                             aka Marvel Zombie Lad
                                             Charter Member, LNH
Newsgroups: alt.config
From: karl@ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Subject: Re: Proposal for alt.fan.disney.afternoon
Organization: Interactive Systems, Cambridge, MA 02138-5302
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1992 22:18:29 GMT

>twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce) writes:
>>alt.fan.disney.afternoon is a brand-new group.  If I hear no
>>objections, tomorrow I will newgroup alt.tv.disney-aftn and rmgroup
>>alt.fan.disney.afternoon.

Note that there are two changes involved here: (a) moving from alt.fan to
alt.tv, and (b) changing the dot to a hyphen.

I agree with the former change (the "fan" hierarchy should not be used if
some other can be found; after all, practically every newsgroup is for fans
of what it discusses).  I'm less sure about the latter.  If this group were
created in the mainstream, would it be rec.arts.disney.afternoon, a subgroup
of the existing disney group?  Or would it go under rec.arts.tv.*?


kherron@ms.uky.edu (Kenneth Herron) writes:
>Please don't.  It has been proven virtually impossible to really remove
>an alt group once it has been created.

I do not find this a convincing argument, though.  I'm perfectly happy to
nuke the one group and alias it to the other; the fact that it continues to
exist at "auto-pilot" sites doesn't bother me much.  (People who *are*
bothered by those of us who do this should expend extra effort into getting
the name right the first time.)

Karl Heuer   karl@ima.isc.com   uunet!ima!karl
Newsgroups: alt.config
From: tyger@netcom.com (Kitty in the Middle)
Subject: Re: Proposal for alt.fan.disney.afternoon
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 20:14:28 GMT
Organization:  I didn't do it, nobody saw me do it, you can't prove anything!

In article <BuM8KC.1IG@world.std.com> bmarcum@world.std.com (Bill Marcum) writes:
>In article <xaxnytd.tyger@netcom.com> tyger@netcom.com (Kitty in the Middle) writes:
>>PS: Show of hands: How many sites that are protesting a.f.d.a carry
>>    alt.fan.tiny-toons? alt.fan.ren-n-stimpy? 
>>
>>    Just curious.
>
>Are you sure that's alt.fan.tiny-toons?  We've got alt.tv.tiny-toon and
>rec.arts.tv.tiny-toon (the rec group isn't supposed to exist, but it still
>gets posts once in a blue moon.)

Whoops! Yes, I did mean alt.tv.tiny-toons...my point still stands though...

>Bill Marcum  bmarcum@world.std.com

   Tyger

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Newsgroups: alt.config
From: Lawrence.London@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Lawrence London)
Newsgroups: alt.config
Subject: Re: Proposal: alt.architecture
Date: 13 Sep 92 04:11:59 GMT
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service

In article <BuDv9u.3rE@nic.umass.edu> s0558191@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Chris Belanger) writes:
>As someone, who has been looking high and far for a newsgroup
>addressing architecture, this is welcome news. Having a place
>where students, educators, architects, and other interested people
>can all exchange ideas is a valuble idea. I hope that others will
>show support for this and participate upon it's creation.

Affirmative on this one.

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From: bcasper@c00313-11pa.eos.ncsu.edu (Brian Casper)
Subject: Re: removal of alt.motorcycles.harley
Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 02:01:20 GMT

davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) writes:
>  At the moment there is more and better discussion going on here than
>in the rec group, so consider this a serious objection. I will keep this
>group at my sites until the rec group shows some signs of viability and
>a freedom from flames from rice-jockeys.

r.m.harley hasn't been created yet on my local news server.  When did it start
showing up around the rest of the net?  Perhaps more people would be using it
instead of this alt group if it existed everywhere...  Keeping the two around
for a little while is probably not a bad idea, but ultimately, I would rather
see the rec group survive...


Newsgroups: alt.config
From: u8653100@keystone.arch.unsw.edu.au (Dennis Lu)
Subject: Re: Proposal: alt.architecture
Reply-To: u8653100@keystone.arch.unsw.edu.au
Organization: Faculty of Architecture, University of New South Wales
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 01:52:54 GMT

wai@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Benjamin Wai) writes:

>	I also strongly support this idea and I believe the field of 
>	Architecture deserves to become part of sci.*.

f67700241@violet.ccit.arizona.edu (Greg Franklin) writes:

>	Since architecture is such a good subject for a newsgroup, why restrict it
>	to alt?  I think it would pass easily as sci.architecture.... a little
>	more legwork, but it'd be worth it.


I don`t think that sci.architecture is correct, architecture is not just about 
science. What about art and philosophy, these are part of architecture too.

I agree with the article posted by rcj@caen.engin.umich.edu (Rod Johnson):

>	(a) architecture is important enough to warrant a place on the net, 
>	(b) that putting it in rec is trivializing it.  On the other hand, sci
>	seems wrong too ... For now, I would simply propose to start with arts.*,
>	and would suggest that arts.architecture is a natural for it.

For the time being, I think alt.architecture is a better heading for starting this 
new group on architecture, not sci.architecture. 

randolph@ebay.sun.com (Randolph Fritz) writes:

>	May I suggest we also start alt.binaries.pictures.architecture at the 
>	same time, since an important means of communicating architectural 
>	ideas is through drawings and photographs?

I also think alt.binaries.pictures.architecture is a good idea.


Dennis Lu
School of Architecture,
University of New South Wales,
Sydney, Australia.
Newsgroups: alt.config
From: alberti@ux.acs.umn.edu (Timothy Fay)
Subject: Re: Proposal for alt.fan.disney.afternoon
Originator: alberti@epx.cis.umn.edu
Organization: Revolutionary Anarchist Bowling League
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 03:10:06 GMT

In <1992Sep05.155322.26563@NeoSoft.com> arielle@NeoSoft.com (Stephanie da Silva) writes:

>So this includes Gummi Bears, DuckTales, Chip 'n Dale's Rescue Rangers,
>Tale Spin, Darkwing Duck, Goof Troop, Bonkers! and Aladdin so far.

...And (the previously mentioned) WUZZLES and NEW ADVENTURES OF WINNIE 
THE POOH, along with the new LITTLE MERMAID and RAW TOONAGE series.
Quite a lot to talk about, actually. :-)

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From: bobk@dogear.spk.wa.us (Bob Kirkpatrick)
Newsgroups: alt.config,alt.non.sequitur,rec.audio,alt.exploding.kibo
Subject: Re: RFD: alt.lurker
Date: 15 Sep 92 04:05:25 GMT
Organization: Dog Ear'd Systems of Spokane, WA

arsmith@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Alan Smith) writes:

> In article <1992Sep14.184823.1164@tc.cornell.edu> mdw@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (
> >This is the official RFD for a new group, tentatively named "alt.lurker".
> >I see a real need for this group (especially for the t.b and soc.* 
> >populations)... a group for all of those lurkers out there, hiding amidst
> >the woodwork of the net. Actually, since most of the proponents of this
> >group will be, in fact, lurkers themselves, I expect very little
> >(if any) bandwidth to be "wasted" on such a group. Everyone will instead
> >sit on the group and "lurk", as it were... no waste of resources
> >whatsoever! 
> >The discussion time is 2-3 weeks... or we could just go ahead with
> >the CFV since most of the lurkers won't respond to the discussion
> >anyway. 
> >Thoughts?
> >
> I'm all for it.  It's about time those guys had a place where us loudmouths
> wouldn't take up all the bandwidth.  Place would go bogus pretty quick, thoug

I don't get it.

Lurkers read, and rarely if ever make their presence known. If they had a group
to not post in, what value would it give them?

--- 
Bob Kirkpatrick <bobk@dogear.spk.wa.us>
Dog Ear'd Systems of Spokane, WA
From: bkottmann@falcon.aamrl.wpafb.af.mil (Brett Kottmann)
Newsgroups: alt.config,news.admin.misc
Subject: Re: Warning: Imminent death of the net predicted
Date: 8 Sep 92 18:11:29 EST
Organization: Logicon Technical Services, Inc.

In article <1992Sep05.141405.994@anomaly.sbs.risc.net>, kd1hz@anomaly.sbs.risc.net (Michael P. Deignan) writes:
> In various messages, 
> akt@dc.Clinton-Gore.org (Amit Thakur) writes:
>        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>Control: newgroup alt.politics.democrats.clinton moderated
>>Control: newgroup alt.politics.democrats.d
>>Control: newgroup alt.politics.democrats moderated
>>Control: newgroup alt.politics.democrats.house moderated
>>Control: newgroup alt.politics.democrats moderated
> 
> I believe this to be a very bad[tm] thing. While discussions of politics
> are a norm on USENET, here we have an organized campaign which will be
> utilizing the resources of USENET - both funded by the federal government
> and private organizations/companies - to propagate announcements and
> other campaign information.
> 
> The poster indicates that a message discussing each of these groups was 
> posted in ALT.CONFIG, but nothing was received here, nor were there any
> apparent followups to the message, just "favorable e-mail".
> 
> Comments?

	Looks like a case of "H*r*l"ism in action :).

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From: smee@bristol.ac.uk (Paul Smee)
Newsgroups: alt.config,rec.audio
Subject: Re: RFD: alt.lurker
Date: 15 Sep 92 09:07:07 GMT
Reply-To: P.Smee@bristol.ac.uk (Paul Smee)
Organization: University of Bristol

In article <qVJ5qB1w165w@dogear.spk.wa.us> bobk@dogear.spk.wa.us (Bob Kirkpatrick) writes:
>arsmith@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Alan Smith) writes:
>
>> In article <1992Sep14.184823.1164@tc.cornell.edu> mdw@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (
>> >This is the official RFD for a new group, tentatively named "alt.lurker".
>> >I see a real need for this group (especially for the t.b and soc.* 
>> >populations)... a group for all of those lurkers out there, hiding amidst
>> >the woodwork of the net. Actually, since most of the proponents of this
>> >group will be, in fact, lurkers themselves, I expect very little
>> >(if any) bandwidth to be "wasted" on such a group. Everyone will instead
>> >sit on the group and "lurk", as it were... no waste of resources
>> >whatsoever! 
>> >
>> I'm all for it.  It's about time those guys had a place where us loudmouths
>> wouldn't take up all the bandwidth.  Place would go bogus pretty quick, thoug
>
>I don't get it.
>
>Lurkers read, and rarely if ever make their presence known. If they had a group
>to not post in, what value would it give them?

It's not for them, it's for the rest of us.  If they had their own
group to go not post in, then those of us who want to carry on serious
discussions wouldn't keep being annoyed by them sitting in here and not
posting.  Simple, really.

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Xref: sparky alt.config:5788 alt.rock-n-roll:15843 alt.music.progressive:2433 rec.music.misc:23424
From: mcmahan@cs.unca.edu (Scott McMahan -- Genesis mailing list owner)
Newsgroups: alt.config,alt.rock-n-roll,alt.music.progressive,rec.music.misc
Subject: Re: PROPOSAL: alt.music.marillion
Date: 15 Sep 92 17:32:49 GMT
Organization: University of North Carolina at Asheville
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

There's already alt.music.progressive, where Marillion
fits in nicely, and a Marillion mailing list. 

There's not really that much Marillion traffic to justify a whole
other group...

Scott
Newsgroups: alt.config
From: andy@cmptrc.lonestar.org (Andy Hart)
Subject: Re: That Bitch
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 22:18:45 GMT
Organization: CompuTrac Inc., Richardson TX

In article <exuptr.490.716163221@exu.ericsson.se> exuptr@exu.ericsson.se (exuptr@exu.ericsson.se) writes:
>In article <kytn3v=.tyger@netcom.com> tyger@netcom.com (Kitty in the Middle) writes:
>>  Tyger
>>-- 
>>      Kristen Kohlbecker    And I would choose to be with you
>>      tyger@netcom.com      That's if the choice were mine to make   
>>                            But you can make decisions too
>>      A Tyger and a Lady    And you can have this heart to break 
>
>                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>Whose work is that?
>
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Billy Joel, isn't it?    "In every heart, there is a room
			  A sanctuary, safe and strong..."

I think the title is, "And so it goes".   A truly great song.  I hope
that Kristen isn't as sad as the song is.

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From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
Newsgroups: alt.config,alt.rock-n-roll,alt.music.progressive,rec.music.misc
Subject: Re: COUNTERPROPOSAL: alt.music.<insert favorite group here>
Date: 15 Sep 92 21:39:53 GMT
Followup-To: alt.config
Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc.

In article <1992Sep15.190757.25691@cunews.carleton.ca> wcsanil@superior.carleton.ca (Anil Prasad) writes:
>
>
>If anything, we need an alt.music.rennaisance!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
I was wondering when someone was going to say that.  It seems like only
few days after Joe posts his complete Renaissance discography to the
net (which seems to be an almost weekly event now) someone wants a complete
history of the band.  Not that I mind reading about Renaissance but even
I have stopped responding to "what is the first Renaissance album called"
queries.  Anyone willing to bet we don't get a proposal for a rec.music.tori.
amos newsgroup in the next month or so?

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From: news@wolves.uucp (The Wolfe of the Den)
Newsgroups: alt.config,alt.pagan,alt.magick,rec.gardens,alt.mythology,news.groups,rec.food.veg
Subject: Proposal: alt.herbalism
Date: 5 Sep 92 03:06:23 GMT
Followup-To: alt.config
Organization: Wolves Den UNIX
X-Md4-Signature: c7a5139e24b16fba251a74ceb7a5cf66

[Note: followup to alt.config only please.]

There have been about 12 or thirteen requests in the past few months for
a group to discuss herbalism -- the use of vegetable material for
healing purposes.

Barring any strong objection to the name or the subject matter, which
should occur via posting to alt.config, I will issue a newgroup control
message on Wednesday or Thursday, September 9th or 10th. (Well, maybe
I'll wait until the 14th or 15th for more time. :-)

Please express your opinions on alt.config.

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Xref: sparky alt.config:5658 talk.bizarre:29598 alt.religion.kibology:3774 alt.cascade:1836
From: pics_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Captain Picard)
Newsgroups: alt.society.anarchy,alt.config,talk.bizarre,alt.religion.kibology,alt.cascade
Subject: Re: newgroup alt.society.anarchy
Date: 10 Sep 92 19:44:59 GMT
Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York

In <gunnarh.85.716148542@dhhalden.no> gunnarh@dhhalden.no (GUNNAR HORRIGMO) writes:

>In article <1992Sep10.003240.9854@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> mbur@nyx.cs.du.edu (MAC) writes:
>>From: mbur@nyx.cs.du.edu (MAC)
>>Subject: newgroup alt.society.anarchy
>>Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 00:32:40 GMT
>>
>>
>>Charter:
>>
>>Ha!  You want a charter for anarchy?  Surely you jest.
>Ho! You thought Carter was democracy? In God we trust.
Him? You thought Custer had victory? He wasn't the best.
>------G
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Xref: sparky alt.config:5560 alt.flame.marshal.perlman.weenie:13
From: dam@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (David Morning)
Newsgroups: alt.config,alt.flame.marshal.perlman.weenie
Subject: Re: That Bitch
Date: 8 Sep 92 09:36:35 GMT
Organization: Glasgow University Computing Science Dept.

mperlman@nyx.cs.du.edu (Marshal "Airborne" Perlman) writes:

>ewing@minerva.cis.yale.edu (Martin Ewing) writes:

>>I call for the creation of alt.rachel.weenie, because she is pissing me off.
>>She butts her nose in everyone else's business and I'm sick and tired of it.
>>Rachel, get a life, rent a clue, and fuck a cat!

>I AGREE: BUT LETS HAVE HER FULL NAME FOLLOWED BY THE WORD
>BITCH!

>I got my news groups tho..and guess what? I AM FLATTERED! My
>buddie and I haven't had a good laugh in such a long time. He does't
>even use the computer that much and thinks that shes USENET IDIOT.

Jesus!! The US gets weirder by the minute! A fan group for THIS??!!
What on earth does that last sentence mean?? It's completely unintelligible!!

I'd have thought the nyx bbs had more taste

Dave
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From: mike@raven.alaska.edu (Mike Kienenberger)
Newsgroups: alt.config
Subject: alt.comics.lnh (bad name!)
Date: 14 Sep 92 10:47:51 GMT
Organization: University of Alaska, Fairbanks

In article <1992Sep14.013438.8327@ncsu.edu> jecoleb@eos.ncsu.edu writes:
>
>*sigh*  Sometimes you can't even work within the LEGITIMATE channels.
>
>I posted my proposal for alt.comics.lnh last night around 12:30 AM,
>and just logged on to find:
>
>>From: ejo@kaja.gi.alaska.edu (Eric J. Olson)
>>Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
>>Subject: Re: alt.comics.LNH: status report?
>>Control: newgroup alt.comics.lnh
>>
>>Best idea I've heard all day.  I'd do anything to get that crap out of
>>r.a.c.
>
>>From: ejo@kaja.gi.alaska.edu (Eric J. Olson)
>>Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
>>Subject: newgroup alt.comics.superman.dies.dies.dies
>>Control: newgroup alt.comics.superman
>>
>> And speaking of which...
>>
>> Eric Olson
>Couldn't even wait a full DAY before blowing his wad...

That's Eric for you.  At least he used his real name.

>So, here goes.  Further discussion is welcome on the .lnh group, and if
>support continues to be good, I'll send a control newgroup of my OWN in
>a week or so that's a little closer to the usual standards, though I
>really do hope to avoid a newgroup/rmgroup war if I can help it. Please don't
>discard alt.comics.lnh as a bogus group just YET, just because one hoser
>got an itchy trigger finger...  (though at least it wasn't newgrouped as 
>alt.comics.lnh.acton-lord.acton-lord.acton-lord!)
>
>To the r.a.c folks:  It may be technically "bogus", but it's there--so we
>might as well go ahead and use it.  This post & any followups are merely
>to salvage what mainstream acceptance we can for the group.
>
>NEW GROUP : alt.comics.lnh -- Home of the tales of the Legion of Net.Heroes.
>
>This group is for the perpetuation of the ongoing story of the Legion of
>Net.Heroes, a band of rec.arts.comics readers who've created super-heroic
>alter-egos for fictional purposes.  Like Suicide Squid (a r.a.c. typo that 
>went on to produce T-shirts, an alt.fan group and an appearance on Parker 
>Lewis), the LNH has been a rabid success in rec.arts.comics, and has taken
>up a significant portion of the group's traffic. 
>
> With the rmgrouping of rec.arts.comics and subsequent restructuring of 
>the r.a.c.* hierarchy, this group is intended to provide a new forum for 
>the creative writing of the LNH, and to relieve the r.a.c.* groups from 
>fiction-based traffic and heavy crossposting.
>
>----------jeff the wonder llama, jecoleb@eos.ncsu.edu

I'd still recommend renaming it.
There's absolutely no way that anyone will guess what LNH stands for.
How about "alt.comics.lgn-net-heros?"  And the stupid arguments that
"Once a group is created on Altnet, one must never change it!" is just
that -- stupid!  Those who refuse to rmgroup will eventually be
overwhelmed by the shear volume of Usenet junk groups.
From: elle@kimbark.uchicago.edu (Ellen Keyne Seebacher)
Newsgroups: alt.config
Subject: Re: name for "alt.amateur-comp"
Date: 12 Sep 92 23:48:07 GMT
Reply-To: elle@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations

In article <BuGv8M.9Bp@unix.amherst.edu> 
 twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce) writes:
>Ronda Hauben and I have been having an e-mail discussion ...
>> BTW what is your objection to our name? Alt.beer or alt.alt don't seem
>> any more specific that alt.amateur-comp.

Anyone carrying a bogon like alt.alt deserves both Carasso and Becker.

I wouldn't worry about alt.amateur-comp, Tim.  The name is no worse than
most, is better than most of Ronda's original suggestions, and is pretty
much a done deal now.

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Newsgroups: alt.config