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- From: jwall@nyx.cs.du.edu (Jeff Wall)
- Subject: Re: *** SM ISO SF ***
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.212330.5461@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 21:23:30 GMT
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- In article <16646@auspex-gw.auspex.com> johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) writes:
- >
- >I'm going to assume you mean alt.personals because as far as I can tell
- >alt.singles doesn't exist. If it does, it shouldn't. You see, Brent, there's
- >a reasons that discussions should take place in soc.singles and personal
- >ads in alt.personals. Granted, the charter is a little closer than say
- >comp.unix.sources and rec.scuba, but each group has it's own charter. That
- ^^^^^^^^^
- |
- Hah, don't be too sure John, I read rec.scuba, and soc.singles regularly
- and about a month ago we had our own problem with personals. Some guy up
- in the Boston area was advertising for a sexy female dive buddy. It kinda
- relates but he still got barbequed, caused quite a ruckus
- in a nice calm quite group like rec.scuba. I thought I was in the wrong
- news group :-).
-
- >charter should be read and understood by everyonce *before* they post an
- >article to the group. You can find the charters in news.announce.newusers.
- >I recommend reading them. The file which describes the alt.groups is actually
- >quite entertaining.
-
- Cheers,
-
- Jeff
-
- P.S. rec.scuba FAQ even states it is flame free, quite a contrast Huh.
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