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From: gil@banyan.UUCP (Gil Pilz@Eng@Banyan)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: Request for comments: news.avian
Message-ID: <540@banyan.UUCP>
Date: 10 Oct 89 14:29:46 GMT
References: <35345@apple.Apple.COM> <2039@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM>
Reply-To: gil@banyan.com
Organization: Banyan Systems, Inc.
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In article <2039@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM> cyrill@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM (Cyro Lord) writes:
>In article <35345@apple.Apple.COM> chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
>>This is is a request for discussion on a possible newsgroup named 'news.avian'. 

>I'm so glad that we all will have to live with your name for this group.
>I know the rest of us can't think but are we really that dumb? Why this
>'news' name? Because Chuq wants this name. No to maillists, no to 'rec'
>even through birds don't need people to grow, people do this as a hobby.
>Enough 'bs' about this. Lets not go down this road as we will have groups
>named: [etc. etc. etc.]

Oh god, my sides are still hurting. Thank you so much Cyril. This was
the funniest thing I've seen in quite some time. We all need to
lighten-up around here and with postings like this how can we not ?

Okay everybody on the downbeat . . . 1-2-3-4 

                   "IT'S A JOKE, SON"


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        Gilbert W. Pilz Jr.       gil@banyan.com
        Banyan Systems Inc.       (617) 898-1196
        115 Flanders Road
        Westboro, MA 01581
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