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From: wm@tekchips.UUCP (Wm Leler)
Newsgroups: net.suicide
Subject: Re: Let's keep net.suicide alive
Message-ID: <47@tekchips.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 1-Aug-85 20:20:13 EDT
Article-I.D.: tekchips.47
Posted: Thu Aug  1 20:20:13 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 3-Aug-85 10:27:59 EDT
References: <27@tekchips.UUCP> <660@mcnc.mcnc.UUCP>
Reply-To: wm@tekchips.UUCP (Wm Leler)
Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR
Lines: 40
Keywords: dead C scrolls
Summary: Revisionism?  Naw, just provincialism.

In article <660@mcnc.UUCP> bch@mcnc.UUCP (Byron Howes) writes:
>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.)

Revisionism?  Naw, just provincialism.  Both Tom and Byron are
correct within their respecitive contexts.  The earlier (and
decidedly weirder) net.suicide never made it out to this neck of
the woods until the motorcycle helmet discussion got going.
Actually, my major rememberance of net.suicide is a wonderful
article by Byron (himself!) about driving with your headlights
off at night.

But, speaking of provincialism, come on Byron!  What kind of
line is "those of us who witnessed it should be content in our
knowledge"?  I've never known you to shy away from a typewriter.
I'm not "content in my knowledge", and would love to see your
version of this group's birth (besides, when did you start
believing in an absolute reality?).

BTW, Byron's headlight article was living proof that sarcasm does
not work on the net.  I've never seen so many people taken in.

not one to sit idly by when my name is mentioned,

formerly yours,

wm@unc