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- From: lazlo@triton.unm.edu (Lazlo Nibble)
- Subject: Re: PROPOSAL: ALT.PSYCHOTRONIC
- Message-ID: <d2qq8cc@lynx.unm.edu>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 01:55:23 GMT
- Organization: Usenet Power Elite: Crush-The-Innocent-Newbies Strike Team
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- twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce) writes:
-
- > I question (a) the placing of the name (is anyone surprised?) and (b)
- > the choice of the word "psychotronic." Is this a well-known term within
- > the field?
-
- "Psychotronic" is a pretty well-known term within weird-movie fandom,
- thanks mostly to Michael Weldon's movie guide and magazine of the same
- name. But we already have alt.cult-movies, which discusses this stuff all
- the time without unnecessarily confusing people who've never heard that
- particular term.
-
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- Lazlo (lazlo@triton.unm.edu)
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