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From: ethan@ut-emx.UUCP (Ethan Tecumseh Vishniac)
Newsgroups: alt.flame,talk.religion.newage,talk.origins
Subject: Re: Platygaeanism
Message-ID: <407@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: 31 Dec 87 16:00:55 GMT
References: <27455COK@PSUVMA> <4249@bellcore.bellcore.com> <1359@quad1.quad.com> <10064@shemp.UCLA.EDU>
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
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Keywords: platygaeanism, Riemannian geometry
Summary: question
Posted: Thu Dec 31 10:00:55 1987

In article <10064@shemp.UCLA.EDU>, troly@CS.UCLA.EDU writes:
> 
{Various literate, sophisticated and ridiculous arguments in favor
of a flat Earth deleted, but admired.}

These are wonderful articles, but I am greatly puzzled by one thing.
They are obviously meant to be satire, but the articles that they
most effective satirize are to be found in talk.origins, which
is *omitted* from the newsgroup list.  Why?   Frankly, alt.flame
is a poor substitute.

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 I just don't want to be     {charm,ut-sally,ut-ngp,noao}!utastro!ethan
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