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- From: twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce)
- Subject: Re: Create alt.tv.chips
- Message-ID: <Bxxru4.6Gz@unix.amherst.edu>
- Organization: Elitist Usenet Administrators, Stuff & Nonsense Division
- References: <1992Nov18.024744.13687@muddcs.claremont.edu> <1992Nov18.051451.24493@u.washington.edu> <1992Nov18.210358.19871@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 23:56:26 GMT
- Lines: 36
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- In article <1992Nov18.210358.19871@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> tmiller@nyx.cs.du.edu (Thomas Christian Miller) writes:
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- >In article <1992Nov18.051451.24493@u.washington.edu> kruegek@stein.u.washington.edu (Kirby Krueger) writes:
- >
- >>Translation: I'm the only one I know that likes the show. Let's make a
- >>newsgroup so I can find others who do.
- >
- >Please learn to _read_ the English language before impulsively translating
- >it. "There aren't that many people" does not necessarily exclude a small
- >% of people devoted to this more "alternative" show.
-
- No, but it certainly excludes the large percentage of people who are
- not interested. What on earth are you trying to say?
-
- >How would this make alt.tv.chips any different from any _other_ Altnet group?
-
- Like, say, the proposed alt.psychology.personality? A lot of people
- have publicly proclaimed their interest in such a group. I see no
- more than two posts in support of alt.tv.chips, and some perfectly
- good reasons against it. Your point?
-
- >Altnet is abundant with groups discussing things that have
- >limited followerships, but nevertheless generate stimulating discussion.
-
- So wake me when a CHiPs mailing list generates "stimulating discussion."
-
- >Same goes for the whole of Usenet. To many, this is what news is all about.
- >Should we disallow stuff like comp.lang.logo simply because Logo is more
- >of a "sparse interest" language?
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- Altnet isn't Usenet.
-
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