Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!security!genrad!decvax!harpo!seismo!rochester!ritcv!ccieng5!ccieng2!kfk From: kfk@ccieng2.UUCP Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Dying subjects update Message-ID: <219@ccieng5.UUCP> Date: Tue, 3-Jan-84 17:19:02 EST Article-I.D.: ccieng5.219 Posted: Tue Jan 3 17:19:02 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 7-Jan-84 02:25:54 EST Lines: 23 ---------- From dalcs!holmes Mon Jan 9 00:57:49 1984 Subject: Re: Dying subjects update Newsgroups: net.news.group,net.movies.sw,net.applic,net.college,net.games.pacman,net.rec.birds,net.rec.skydive,net.usoft.s,net.vvs Anyone who subscribes to this many newsgroups should be terminated. ---------- Two things: 1) Sez hoo? I currently read 26 newsgroups. They are all valuable. Five are technical in nature. Three are philosophically or religiously oriented. (Yes, I am a masochist: I read net.religion.) The remainder are relatively low-volume things that don't take up much time. This one happens to demonstrate only 9! 2) Would *somebody* please figure out what it is in the news that makes it create such ridiculous dates? I haven't got the source, or I'd look it over myself; but this article supposedly arrived 6 days in the future. Is this machine built by Panasonic? Does somebody just like future dates? Is the news seriously braindamaged? (Confusion assistance: "Panasonic: just slightly ahead of our time"????) Karl Kleinpaste ...![ [seismo, allegra]!rochester!ritcv, rlgvax]!ccieng5!ccieng2[!:]kfk