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- From: jfurr@nyx.cs.du.edu (Joel Furr)
- Subject: Re: alt.fan.cows ... or perhaps alt.humor.ascii-art
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.210122.6525@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 93 21:01:22 GMT
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- In article <C094IC.MFF@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jal41820@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Smiley) writes:
- >Joel has said more than enough times he's serious about this proposal. Maybe
- >posting ascii files related to the group he's proposing in alt.config isn't
- >the right way to go about it, maybe it is. For the past week I've seen him
- >post several articles about his serious intents, and I for one at least
- >realize that his ascii posts are an attempt to show others the need for
- >the proposed group.
-
- I am very serious about this. People have generated terabytes of ASCII
- cows over the years and there seems to be no newsgroup that these ASCII
- cows are welcome in. Similarly, "cow humor" is very popular at
- agriculture-oriented schools and Lord knows we have enough cows here at
- Virginia Tech to make cow jokes all the rage. I feel that a cow-oriented
- alt. group would be a good net.citizen and would receive quite a few
- postings. I would, however, support changing the name to alt.humor.cows
- as opposed to making it another alt.fan group.
-
- If the people who keep talking about how I've supported zillions of silly
- alt. groups actually _check_, they'll find that I sarcastically suggested
- alt.dev.null.mnemonics and alt.fan.catch-22. Neither of which I pushed
- vigilantly for and both of which, at the time, were intended as sarcasm
- and taken as such by most people who read them and didn't follow up with
- bitter flames.
-
- Alt.humor.cows is a serious suggestion. It is _also_ a suggestion I'll
- quietly drop if other people don't post to alt.config supporting it. I am
- floating it here to see if people DO support it; I'm really not interested
- in bile posted from that twit at UVA or that crank at Chicago.
-
- If people want an alt.humor.cows group, I'll listen. If people think that
- another group won't be offended if all us cow fans show up there and post
- lots and lots of ASCII cows, then I'll listen when they suggest it.
- Rec.pets is out, as the last several times any cow ASCII art has been
- posted there, people have gone nuclear. If people think a better name
- than alt.humor.cows exists, then I'll listen to that. Temper-tantrums
- from jerks I don't listen to.
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