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From: howard@cyb-eng.UUCP (Howard Johnson)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: time to remove net.bizarre
Message-ID: <688@cyb-eng.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 4-Sep-85 14:38:45 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep  4 14:38:45 1985
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> When net.bizarre first showed up (or was it the second, or maybe
> third time?), people expected it to be a refuge for the truly bizarre.
> Well net.bizarre is now quite mundane, and the experiment was
> a failure.

I posted a somewhat positive message about net.bizarre (back when
it had 2-digit article numbers).  I was willing to give it a chance.

> Are there really any of its original supporters who still feel
> it is worth keeping around?

While I wasn't quite an original supporter (accepter would be more
appropriate), I don't see much value in it now.
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