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From: westling@cvl.UUCP (Mark Westling)
Newsgroups: net.philosophy
Subject: Re: More Atheistic Wishful Thinking
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Date: Thu, 12-Sep-85 01:42:15 EDT
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This message recently appeared in net.bizarre:

>From: long@oliveb.UUCP (Dave Long)
>Subject: Let's kill this newsgroup
>Message-ID: <592@oliveb.UUCP>
>
>What could be more bizarre than having this newsgroup commit suicide?  If we
>all send out a 'rmgroup' message at some specified time, thus removing this
>group, we will accomplish the most bizarre thing it net history.  Not only
>will a group have been removed, it will also have done so courtesy of its 
>most loyal readers.

Let's kill net.bizarre, and see if we can find its soul within, say, a
month.  At that time we'll resurrect it and debate whether or not it's the
same group.  What a wonderful opportunity we have here to whip a little
scientific method into this discussion.

-- 
Mark Westling

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