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- From: TMCCART3@ua1vm.ua.edu (Tracey McCartney)
- Subject: Re: How did you find motss (was Re: A Better Year Ahead
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 21:31:02 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec22.002333.16833@u.washington.edu>
- rhiann@carson.u.washington.edu (Sandy --not Sandra) writes:
-
- >I found soc.motss by reading a.p.h for a couple of weeks, and reading a flame
- >from someone about how soc.motss was annoyed by the cross-posts. I checked
- >out soc,motss almost immediately.
- Ditto. And I think I read in the FAQ that a deliberately opaque name was
- chosen for this newsgroup in an effort not to attract homophobic flamers. Some
- of the suggestions I've heard to replace motss would be pretty obvious to the
- outside world. If there's still a concern for our privacy...
- Oh, and happy holidays, everyone... I'm going to spend Christmas with my
- folks. I remember once upon a time thinking that after I came out to them
- (last October), everything would be sweet and uncomplicated. Sigh...
-
- Tracey
- Shyster stealth lesbian weasel-in-training
- shyster: (prob. from Scheusster fl 1840 Am. attorney frequently rebuked
- in a New York court for pettifoggery)
- Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary
-