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- From: doug@eng.umd.edu (Douglas N. Cohen)
- Subject: Re: New newsgroup?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.164040.9439@eng.umd.edu>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 16:40:40 GMT
- Organization: hah! we don't need no steenkin' organization!
- Summary: -=-=-=-< advice, no humor >-=-=-=-
- References: <BxxxFB.4KA@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
- Sender: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-< a ghost in the machine >-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
- Followup-To: don't bother.....
- Keywords: -=-=-=-< please pay attention >-=-=-=-
- Cc: trwagner@silver.ucs.indiana.edu
- Lines: 96
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- In article <BxxxFB.4KA@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> trwagner@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Ted Wagner) writes:
-
- >
- >
- >
- > I know, I know. We need another newsgroup like we all
-
- no you don't... evidently!
-
- >need an extra hole in our heads! ;) But, something I say
- >was strange. We have alt.personals and alt.personals.bondage.
- >Yet, alt.personals *asks* that sex personals not be posted here.
-
- where did you *ever* get such a stupid concept....
-
- i am the keeper/present administrator of the FAQ. i have been on
- this group since the beginning. obviously you have not read the FAQ very
- carefully, if at all. or perhaps you have confused that ACS with the
- alt.personals.* newsgroup(s).....
- this is a common and irritating mistake. ACS stands for anonymous
- contact service, and is run by (now the only one on the a.p.*) d. wagner,
- out of @cupid.sai.com. you must mail a message to it to have it appear.
- all that it does (after stripping the headers and 'sigs' is to post it
- to alt.personals.* with the anonymous headers and 'sig'. JUST AS ANYONE
- ELSE WOULD, IF THEY POSTED IT THEMSELVES!!!
- ANYONE can post to alt.personals.* by using Pnews (or whatever
- their system uses to post to newsgroups) or by using the follow-up or
- reply commands. you do not have to use the (restrictive) ACS, if you do
- not want to, or find it restrictive, or wish to be an open and honest
- poster.
- ACS is overlaid on the a.p.* group(s) it is neither a part of it,
- controlling it, or responsible for it, in *ANY* way!!! neither does it
- moderate it, police it, or have more than a moderate influence on it.
- in point of fact, they (almost all of the variations) have been
- a major source of abuses of the internet/usenet systems, generally being
- more of a headache for everyone, including the administrators of such
- 'services'.
-
- nobody *asks* that sex personals not be posted, unless it is a
- person who has an objection to it on a personal level, and has voiced a
- *personal* opinion. there is *NO* moderator on that alt.personals.*
- groups!!! there are guide lines, suggestions, and 'nettiquette' as to
- content, but the actual *RULES* are few, and well documented!
-
- please!!!! if you want another group (which we *really* *DON'T*
- need, anyway!) that is fine, but you better get your facts straight. your
- reason is totally invalid.
-
- -=-=-> PLEASE READ THE FAQs *CAREFULLY* BEFORE YOU POST ANOTHER
- -=-=-> STUPID MESSAGE LIKE THE ONE YOU POSTED. IF YOU NEED A
- -=-=-> COPY OF THE CURRENT ONE, (still evolving) I WILL BE HAPPY
- -=-=-> TO SEND IT.
-
- -=-=-> PLEASE STOP CONFUSING ACS WITH ALT.PERSONALS.*!!!
- -=-=-> PLEASE STOP PERPETRATING THIS MYTH AND STUPIDITY!!!
-
- >
- > Why not create alt.personals.sex? This would hit those
- >who don't want plain personals and those who DON'T want the kinky
- >side but DO want a sexual relationship...
- >
- >Or, does it exist and my site does not get it?
-
- you mean, you don't know? did you even bother to check or ask,
- or read the FAQ, before you spouted off????? unbelievable....
-
- >
- >Ted
- >
- >Just a suggestion for you folks. I really don't give a hoot and
- >a hollar.... ;)
-
- the why did you hoot and hollar (incorrectly,) with a needless
- and mis-informed post?
-
- >
- >
- >
-
- another opinion, worth what you paid for it!
-
- (royally ticked off!)
- and, as always, i am/at:
-
- doug: < doug@eng.umd.edu > : < doug@lpf.umd.edu >
-
- -=-=-=-=-=-=-< a ghost in the machine >--=-=-=-=-=-=-
-
- "now, as we drift a little further down the stream,
- was it all, what it seemed?
- was it true, was it real, or, just a dream?
- when you wake up you may find
- that you're not where you left yourself!"
-
- justin hayward/john lodge: the blue jays
-