Xref: utzoo news.groups:16533 rec.arts.movies:28593 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!purdue!bu.edu!bu-cs!buengc!bph From: bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton) Newsgroups: news.groups,rec.arts.movies Subject: Re: REC.ARTS.CINEMA -- drawing the discussion to a close? Message-ID: <5304@buengc.BU.EDU> Date: 18 Jan 90 01:30:28 GMT References: <50608@bbn.COM> <1990Jan9.175821.19661@athena.mit.edu> <1990Jan11.033402.23405@sq.sq.com> <1990Jan13.173807.9313@everexn.uucp> Reply-To: bph@buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton) Followup-To: news.groups Organization: Boston Univ. Col. of Eng. Lines: 16 In article <1990Jan13.173807.9313@everexn.uucp> karen@everexn.uucp (Karen Valentino) writes: >group--why? What about r.h.f., one of the most-read groups on usenet? >A very successful group; It's successful because everyone's looking for a joke, and it's cheap, at 1-6 articles per day, including Brad's incessant and voluminous "this is how I want it done and tough stuff if I say it isn't" postings. Unfortunately, it isn't funny. rec.humor is funnier. --Blair "What word usually follows 'Brad', among the cognoscenti..."