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From: bch@mcnc.UUCP (Byron Howes)
Newsgroups: net.suicide
Subject: Re: Let's keep net.suicide alive
Message-ID: <660@mcnc.mcnc.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 29-Jul-85 00:20:29 EDT
Article-I.D.: mcnc.660
Posted: Mon Jul 29 00:20:29 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 30-Jul-85 05:43:38 EDT
References: <27@tekchips.UUCP>
Reply-To: bch@mcnc.UUCP (Byron Howes)
Organization: North Carolina Educational Computing Service
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In article <27@tekchips.UUCP> toma@tekchips.UUCP (Tom Almy) writes:
>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.

Boy!  Revisionism lives!  Where in the world did you get that notion of
how net.suicide came to be?  The creation of net.suicide is not a subject
I'm willing to go into here (those of us who witnessed it should be
content in our knowledge) let it suffice to say it predates spaf@gatech,
chuq@nsc, tekchips and toma@tekchips.  (It is possible that wm@tekchips
might remember, but he was wm@unc in those days.)

The creation of net.bizarre is redundant with the existance of net.suicide.

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						Byron C. Howes
				      ...!{decvax,akgua}!mcnc!ecsvax!bch