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From: [e-mail] (Kay Dekker)
Newsgroups: soc.bi
Subject: Re: Appearances on and off the net (was Re: Why I read a.s.a.r)
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Date: 25 Jan 93 20:09:52 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Dave Berry) writes:
>[e-mail] (Kay Dekker) writes:
>>let's clarify - it's Alex and Dave's party, at which a number of soc.bi
>>readers will be present, *not* "a soc.bi party"),
>
>Well, I've advertised it as a soc.bi party, on soc.bi, and only a few
>non soc.bi folk will be there.  Sounds like a soc.bi party to me.  I
>suppose if you interpret "soc.bi party" to be a party organised by
>an officially constituted and representative events committee of the
>UK bisketeers, with appropriate consultation and authorisation at
>every stage of the planning, then it ain't one :-).  But that doesn't
>seem a useful concept to me.

Exactly quite - which was how it seemed to me to be being talked about,
as though there were such a thing, and that's why I wrote what I did.
Because it seemed to be getting to the point where people were
debating policy, and strategy, and that kind of stuff.  Sorry if it
sounded as though I was *plonk*ing, but.... <sigh>

And thanks for a spiffy few days chez you and Alex...


                Kay
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