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From: weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu (Obnoxious Math Grad Student)
Newsgroups: news.admin,talk.bizarre
Subject: the death of talk.bizarre (was Re: The death of USENET)
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Date: 21 Jun 88 05:31:16 GMT
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Reply-To: weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu (Obnoxious Math Grad Student)
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In-reply-to: mack@inco.UUCP (Dave Mack)

In article <2367@inco.UUCP>, mack@inco (Dave Mack) writes:
>>>Actually, there is one thing that can be done without software changes,
>>>something that would cut traffic quite a bit and simultaneously greatly
>>>improve the signal/noise ratio:  go 100% moderated.

>>bravo!  here's my vote, and an offer to moderate a group.

>I offer my services as moderator of talk.bizarre.

No No!  *I* offer *my* services to moderate talk.bizarre.  I mean, what
the hell would you know about bizarreness?  *I*--as in *me*--was one of
the original net.rumor secret invaders from the dead newsgroup.  Where
were you at the time?  Reading a dead PDP manual?

>Heh heh.

Why do you say that?

ucbvax!garnet!weemba	Matthew P Wiener/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720