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From: toma@tekchips.UUCP (Tom Almy)
Newsgroups: net.suicide
Subject: Let's keep net.suicide alive
Message-ID: <27@tekchips.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 24-Jul-85 16:30:21 EDT
Article-I.D.: tekchips.27
Posted: Wed Jul 24 16:30:21 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 27-Jul-85 00:01:48 EDT
Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR
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Many people consider this to be a worthless news group.  But it can have 
significance.  The group was formed during flaming about motorcycle
helmets when it was suggested by a proponent that anti-helmet comments
be submitted to "net.suicide".  The group digressed into a 
religious/philosophical discussion about life-after-death (especially
after suicide death), and then dropped into disuse except for an
occasional posting of net.joke quality.

I am proposing that this group be revived in the spirit of its original
use.  I have seen postings in other groups which could have been placed
here, and I have some other ideas as well:

*  Doing stupid things while driving (reading, shaving, etc.)

*  Drinking & driving

*  Consuming Nutrasweet, sugar, (name your toxic food substance).

*  Ways to get killed playing hack/rogue/etc.

*  Smoking (and other drugs?)

*  Comments in favor of Nuclear War (limited or global)

*  Coal mining, working with asbestos, gasoline, carbon-tet, etc.

*  Dangerous sports&hobbies (skydiving, mountain-climbing, hunting,
   boxing, golf).

*  Jaywalking, hitchhiking, skate boards, bicycles, motorcycles, 
   small cars, sports cars, "bad" sections of town, riding on 
   airplanes with striking air trafic controllers, pilots, or
   mechanics, private airplanes, all airplanes...


I am waiting for YOUR posting!

Tom Almy

(flames to net.suicide!)

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