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- Path: sparky!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!Furr
- From: Furr@cup.portal.com (George Dalton Madison)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: soc.motss.*
- Message-ID: <72121@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 01:46:32 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- References: <1992Dec17.204251.19263@netcom.com> <thaaang.724731801@cwis>
- <47539@ogicse.ogi.edu> <1992Dec20.052613.4690@macc.wisc.edu>
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- Jess Anderson writes:
- >Possibly you're referring here primarily to keeping the
- >present acronym, for nostalgic or whatever reasons. But as
- >someone else has already remarked, and I've spent some time
- >confirming it today, the Most High Ones of news
- >administration are adamant that groups of groups be named
- >according to Their Scheme, which is that if there's an
-
- "The Most High Ones" can just go suck rocks, as far as I'm
- concerned.
-
- >X.[abc], then there's no X without .[abc]. THe only
- >exception to this form allowed, I understand (no, I have not
- >checked all 2000+ newsgroups), is X.y.d for the meta-group
- X.y.
- >
- Oh, bullpucky. There are any number of weirdnesses grandfathered
- into the news system; I don't see where (IF we wind up keeping
- the name "motss") why there couldn't be sub-groups (other than
- ".d.") while keeping soc.motss as the main group.
-
- Anal-retentive computer geeks with delusions of godhood *really*
- steam my sox.
-
-
- () A technique is a trick that works.
- () -- Gian-Carlo Rota
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- [> George D. Madison | NBCS: B8f+t+w-e+s+k+a!cv | Just say NO to razors! <]
- [> It's a BEAR thing -- you wouldn't understand. <|> furr@cup.portal.com <]
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