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- From: jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (J. Furr)
- Newsgroups: alt.config,alt.folklore.computers
- Subject: Re: What about alt.os.multics? (was: alt.fan.multics, any interest in a Multics (OS) newsgroup?)
- Keywords: group creation alt
- Message-ID: <Bzqr3v.8HM@polaris.async.vt.edu>
- Date: 24 Dec 92 02:04:42 GMT
- References: <1992Dec20.145029.5468@pollux.lu.se> <z-t2_za@rpi.edu> <1992Dec23.105605.3500@pollux.lu.se>
- Organization: Virginia Center for Lemur Fandom (subscribe to alt.fan.lemurs TODAY)
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- In article <1992Dec23.105605.3500@pollux.lu.se> magnus@thep.lu.se (Magnus Olsson) writes:
- >In article <z-t2_za@rpi.edu> multics@lachesis.acm.rpi.edu (Multics) writes:
- >>In article <1992Dec20.145029.5468@pollux.lu.se> magnus@thep.lu.se (Magnus Olsson) writes:
- >>...
- >>>The name alt.fan.multics is *bad*, though, because all the other
- >>>alt.fan.* groups are about people in show biz; it would lead the
- >>>newbies to believe that multics was a pop group :-).
- >>
- >>Actually the item that prompted me to suggest this was the new group
- >>alt.fan.mts (Michigan Terminal System) and os still used here at RPI.
- >
- >Oh, I didn't know that - thanks for telling me. That newsgroup looks
- >pretty interesting...
- >
- >But this points out a drawback with putting a multics groups in the
- >alt.fan hierarchy: I had no idea whatsoever that this group was about
- >an operating system! The alt.fan hierarchy is one of the worst parts
- >of alt in terms of the number of spurious and non-serious groups, and
- >any new group runs a big risk of drowning in the noise.
- >
- >BTW; I retract my earlier statement about all alt.fan groups being
- >about people in show biz since that's simply not true; alt.fan.lemurs,
- >alt.fan.bruce-becker and alt.fan.mts being good counterexamples.
-
- Alt.fan.* is not a "sewer" per se. Fandom in the real world is weird at
- times, wacky, chaotic, etc. Any person who saw teenage girls flinging
- themselves against a wall of hired muscle at a Beatles concert to try to
- get near the Fab Four should know how fans get. What do you expect
- alt.fan.* to be like? The very nature of the human instinct toward fandom
- imposes a certain disorder and spontanenity on any assemblage of fans in
- one place.
-
- Alt.fan.lemurs, alt.fan.letterman, etc. are all very interesting groups
- that seem to be quite at home there. Perhaps it's the
- alt.fan.bruce.woodcock and alt.fan.alok.vijayvargia groups that you find
- so disgusting since they never go through the alt.config approval process.
-
- But nevertheless, I agree, alt.fan.multics would be inappropriately named.
- I think alt.os.multics would be a good starting point for Multics discussions.
-