From: jecoleb@eos.ncsu.edu (Multi-Tasking Man)
Subject: Newgroup alt.comics.lnh, prematurely (Re: alt.comics.LNH: status report?)
Originator: jecoleb@c00507-119rd.eos.ncsu.edu
Keywords: group creation alt
Reply-To: jecoleb@eos.ncsu.edu
Organization: The Ghost Of Christmas Past Society
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 01:34:38 GMT


*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...

The need for alt.comics.superman is a bit questionable, as I don't think
we need alt.comics.green-lantern, alt.comics.spider-man, ad infinitum.
However, alt.comics.lnh IS a serious group, as far as we're concerned,
and (as the above testifies) even the anti-LNH lurkers in r.a.c wouldn't
mind seeing it become a reality.

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.

                                          --jecoleb@eos.ncsu.edu

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