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- From: omitchel@jarthur.claremont.edu (Ocie Mitchell)
- Subject: Re: Create alt.tv.chips
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.024739.12084@muddcs.claremont.edu>
- Sender: news@muddcs.claremont.edu (The News System)
- Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
- References: <1992Nov18.024744.13687@muddcs.claremont.edu> <1992Nov18.051451.24493@u.washington.edu> <1992Nov18.210358.19871@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 02:47:39 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov18.210358.19871@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> tmiller@nyx.cs.du.edu (Thomas Christian Miller) writes:
- [stuff deleted]
- >>Excuse me, but shouldn't things get newsgroups that have a lot of interest,
- >>not things that interest is so sparse that it'd take a worldwide group to
- >>find other people who share that interest? And if we start newgrouping
- >>things like this, we'd open the door for alt.tv.brady-bunch, alt.tv.gilligan,
- >>and basically any show that anyone can remember. It makes sense to have
- >>groups for shows that have huge viewerships, like trek or twin-peaks (when
- >>it was on, at least.) Chips doesn't have this.
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >
- >Just because a show's not on prime-time, or it's 10-15 years old, doesn't
- >mean people don't watch it. Read my original post if you want
- >clarification and statistics. Anyway, even if what you said actually was
- >true, maybe you should read something other than alt.config and alt.sex
- >for a while. Altnet is abundant with groups discussing things that have
- >limited followerships, but nevertheless generate 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?
- >
- >>
- >>Save the altnet!
- >>
- >
- >Oh, please. Thus we should continue creating things like alt.cascade and
- >alt.butt-keg.marmalade to avert _real_ followership of _real_ items, yeah,
- >right.
- >
- >Sincerely,
- >Tom Miller.
- >
-
- Exactly, there are alt groups in my .newsrc that have a grand total of 10
- articles/year I think an alt.tv.chips, or us.tv.chips or something. A lot
- of people just see the action and drama of Chips and fail to abstract
- themselves to a higher level where Chips can be viewed on an alegorical
- level. This is why we should create a group for it.
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