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Subject: Re: Does anyone actually read net.test?
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Date: Sun, 4-May-86 13:46:17 EDT
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In article <2696@jhunix.UUCP> ins_akaa@jhunix.ARPA (Ken Arromdee) writes:
>>>> Well, *I* read this group, but I don't think anyone else does.
>>>> (Just seeing if any of you read the headers.)
>>>	Yea.. Well I read this stuff too, sometimes
>>>	it can be funnier than net.jokes!!!
>>I have a confession to make...I read this, too. For months, I was a "closet"
>>net.test reader, embarrassed to post for fear of ridicule. I had to move my 
>>terminal into a closet whenever I used rn, in case someone might be looking
>>over my shoulder.  I chmod'd my .newsrc in case someone might peek to see
>>what groups I subscribe to.  Please, don't give away my secret.  I might
>>lose my job.  My family would disown me.
>
>I confess to also being a net.test reader...  this group is on occasion
>more bizarre than either net.rumor or bizarre-people...

I'm constantly amazed at the groups in which I find bizarre people posting.
I expect them in net.rumor and net.news.group, and I was somewhat surprised
to find them in net.suicide.  But I don't think that I EVER expected to find
any bizarreness in net.test.  I guess it makes sense though.  After all,
net.test is a perfectly good newsgroup without a "normal" readership to be
bothered by an occasional strange article.

Invasion of net.test anyone?

"This is just a test.  Can anyone confirm this?"
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