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From: ins_akaa@jhunix.UUCP (Ken Arromdee)
Newsgroups: net.rumor
Subject: Re: The purpose of net.rumor
Message-ID: <2340@jhunix.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 28-Mar-86 00:52:31 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 28 00:52:31 1986
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Reply-To: ins_akaa@jhunix.ARPA (Ken Arromdee)
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Summary: Warning: this article contains no rumor

>Unless the connection of our node (homxb) to the net is faulty, it seems
>that the main topic of discussion in this newsgroup is computer problems.
>That topic seems to fit better in net.flame: Net.rumor should be used to
>support the broadcast, confirmation, and/or denial of rumors.

Net.flame is essentially dead (or at least severely comatose).  Saying
"that should go in net.flame" is no longer valid for most sites.

Actually, the proper place for these would be net.bizarre (since these
are strange-but-true events) but that is also dead as a net group.
-- 
"We are going to give a little something, a few little years more, to
socialism, because socialism is defunct.  It dies all by iself.  The bad thing
is that socialism, being a victim of its... Did I say socialism?" -Fidel Castro

Kenneth Arromdee
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