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- From: twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
- Newsgroups: alt.config
- Subject: Re: alt.fan.cows ... or perhaps alt.humor.ascii-art
- Date: 4 Jan 1993 06:21:49 GMT
- Organization: Department of Redundancy Department
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- References: <C094IC.MFF@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1993Jan3.210122.6525@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1993Jan4.032824.23010@wixer.cactus.org>
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- rhodesia@wixer.cactus.org (Felix S. Gallo) writes:
-
- +newsgroups are for interactive exchange of information. There are a limited
- +number of idiotic pictures of cows, and also a limited amount of conversation
- +that can go on about them. ("Wow. That rendition was especially tedious."
- +"Yes.") Nothing about ascii cows has any non-repetitive value whatsoever.
-
- Hey, this is the ALT SEWER [tm]! Anything goes!
-
- +Joel Furr believes that by being involved in creating a newsgroup, he'll gain
- +some number of experience points and perhaps some fame. His bids for
- +recognition via following-up to interesting people's posts have so far failed
- +and he's getting desperate for attention.
-
- Oh, forget it then. I'd go for it if it'd increase the number of
- hit points though. Want to think about and get back to us, Joel?
-
- +Again, you're so magnanimous. I haven't seen a single other post in all of
- +usenet even mentioning the possibility that alt.humor.cows would be a good
- +idea, but I'm sure your loyal throngs are just biding their time.right?right?
-
- Are lemurs loyal? I thought they'd take any opportunity to bit the
- hand that feeds them... Fortunately, they don't have net access, yet.
-
- +If you're really stricken by a need to post ascii art to usenet, then I think
- +the person who should be doing some listening is the systems administrator at
- +nyx.cs.du.edu. Pathological, repetitive idiocy should be punishable by death,
-
- Pathological is out? How about chronic? Inherited? Acquired? [Hmmm..
- chronic, repetitive idiocy....]
-
-
- Terry "It's not warm enough yet" Chan
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