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From: weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu (Obnoxious Math Grad Student)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Bell Labs Star Trek Club
Keywords: Star Trek drek from AT&T
Message-ID: <13882@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: 4 Sep 88 08:29:24 GMT
References: <1040@mtund.ATT.COM> <2826@mind.UUCP> <1043@mtund.ATT.COM>
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In-reply-to: newton@mtund.ATT.COM (Newton Lee)

In article <1043@mtund.ATT.COM>, newton@mtund (Newton Lee) writes:
>I am sorry to have annoyed you. However, cross-posting to soc.singles,
>soc.women, rec.arts.sf-lovers, rec.arts.tv, and rec.arts.movies seems to
>be a logical

Uh oh.  This guy *really* is a serious Trekkie!  Watch out folks...

>	      way to reach Bell Labs people (singles, women, science
>fiction fans, tv and movies lovers)

It would seem logical that the people who *are* already interested in
being potential Bell Lab Trekkies already *read* rec.arts.startrek.
Therefore, your posting could only annoy Bell Labs or non-Bell Labs
people (singles, women, science fiction fans, tv and movies lovers)
who are not interested.

If you really believed your words were logical, you would also be
posting to talk.religion.newage, to get hold of Bell Labs Shirley
MacLaine fans, comp.org.usenix, to get hold of Bell Labs Usenix
members, rec.humor, to get hold of Bell Labs employees with a
ten-year-old's sense of humor, misc.legal, to get hold of Bell
Labs lawyers, etc etc.

Beam that between your pointy ears.

>				     who do not read att.wanted regularly.

Why don't you use other att.* groups?  Don't they have an att.general?
att.newsgroups?  att.dimwits?  Internal memos?  Telephones, maybe?

>Moreover, I specified the message to be restricted to the New Jersey
>area when I used the UNIX command "postnews".

(UNIX is a registered Trademark of AT&T, btw.)

Perhaps a restriction to att would have been more appropriate: Greg's
complaint is that AT&T, having made itself the number-one biggest leaf
node on USENET in order to save on phone bills, is now in the practice
of running up other people's phone bills: your posting is just typical
of such.

So try restricting distribution to "att" next time: sure it will bug
people in AT&T far from New Jersey, but at least you could all argue
it out amongst yourselves.

>                                               By the way, when the
>Star Trek Club is officially formed, outsiders (non-AT&T's) may be
>allowed to join the Club.

May?  That's might generous of you.  Let me guess.  In line with your
company's no third party e-mail policy, outside membership will be
restricted to relatives of AT&T employees?

>It seems illogical

Uh oh.  This guy *really* is a serious Trekkie!  Watch out folks...

>		    to select a long-distance phone company based on
>netnews.  I would do business with a company based on its service and
>cost of goods.

However, if word gets around that there are lots and lots of natural
idiots at the given company--inspired perhaps by USENET--people might
look down on the company.

(Me?  I don't have a telephone.  I'm thus neutral on the question.)

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