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- Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!cubtosys!hees
- From: hees@cubic.com (Phil Hees)
- Subject: Re: proliferation of alt.adjective.noun.verb.verb.verb groups
- Organization: Cubic Tomato Corp.
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 17:32:55 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.173255.16802@cubic.com>
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- In article <BxC2MA.5zC@rahul.net> alange@rahul.net (Andrew Lange) writes:
- >
- >Does anyone know of the history of this prediliction for naming groups
- >alt.opt-adjective.noun.verb.verb.verb ? Which is the first one you saw?
-
- This Major Cultural Trend (TM) is not strictly limited to the alt.*
- hierarchy, as
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- sci.physics.edward.teller.boom.boom.boom
-
- clearly shows. (This newgroup has been in existence for at least 9
- months, according to an old .newsrc file I had lying around.)
-
- --
- Phil Hees
- hees@cubic.com
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