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From: keithe@tekgvs.UUCP (Keith Ericson)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: Demise of net.general - it has to be a joke
Message-ID: <1172@tekgvs.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 31-Jul-85 13:36:19 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 31 13:36:19 1985
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Reply-To: keithe@tekgvs.UUCP (Keith Ericson)
Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR
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In many, many articles various folks have written things like the
following (following the quoted material):

>> It has been decided to abolish net.general.

>Who is this "It" who has decided unilateraly to replace net.general by
>mod.generals?  (get it? get it?)

>> I will be moderating the newsgroup.  My uucp address is
>> ihnp4!abnji!nyssa.
>> -- 
>> James C Armstrong, Jnr.   ihnp4!abnji!nyssa

>And who are YOU?  why do YOU get to approve or reject articles?
>What is this?  What's going on here?

My *GAWD* people! Don't you recognize a joke when you see one?!?

-- 
Keith Ericson  at TekLabs (resident factious factotum)
Tektronix, PO 500, MS 58-383
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