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From: rds5695@ritcv.UUCP (Robert D. Seals)
Newsgroups: net.suicide
Subject: Re: net traffic
Message-ID: <1@ritcv.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 8-Apr-85 22:26:58 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr  8 22:26:58 1985
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Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
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First, I'd like to say that I'm very pleased that CMU has only been on the
net for a year. I'm from Pittsburgh, and have always been jealous of the
notoriety CMU (deservedly) gets, since I chose to go to a school in Rochester.
Fascinating, huh?

Well, OUR net has 450 suicide articles. When we first got the net, I was
generally pretty depressed, and wqhen I looked through the listing of groups,
suicide was one that caught my eye immediately. There haven't been a lot
of postings. Several poems (I think they are a great release for a lot
of people, but generally very dry, even for *really* depressed people),
and there was some discussion of moral ramification of plug-pulling. But
most of the traffic is from people asking what the group is here for.
Fascinating, huh?

One of the problems is that people tend to not stay depressed, and therefore
intereseted in suicide, for too long. Either they go one way or the other,
and it doesn't really matter, as far as traffic to the net goes, anyway.
When you become happy, as I usually am, reading stuff in net.suicide
is pretty much of a bring-down, to say the least. I tried to bring up
Ian Curtis and other stuff, but it was not met withg much excitement.
Suicide isn't very exciting business.

I'm starting to sound like Kurt Vonnegut, aren't I?

Oh, there is a kind of famous book called 'Dead Souls.' Is anyone
familiar with it?

Robert D. Seals