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From: wombat@ccvaxa.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.bizarre
Subject: Re: Demise of net.bizarre (hopefully pr
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Date: Wed, 14-Aug-85 22:44:00 EDT
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Could we turn this into a discussion of the charter of net.bizarre? When the
group was first proposed, I expected it to collect really bizarre things,
like fillers from the *New Yorker* and silly season newspaper articles and
those really, really weird things you don't run across every day. Not ASCII
pictures (what's so bizarre about them?), not do-it-yourself novels (the
most bizarre things in life are REAL, not fiction), not several screens of
garbage (especially Kate Bush and HOMEBOYS and somebody's first experience
with an editor), not jokes (I liked the DT80 series, but maybe it should
have gone to net.jokes; I firmly believe truth is stranger than fiction),
not stupid comments about bazaars (try /dev/null), not whatever falls out of
the bored mind of some turkey in Buffalo, IL.

Am I living under a misconception, or do most people consider the
above-mentioned stuff to be bizarre? I sure don't. I think the *Bizarre
Gazette* is the best thing that's happened to this group. I think that in
the mad dash to justify the continued existence of this notesfile just about
anything was allowed in. Do most readers agree or disagree with that? What
did *you* expect to find here the first time you read net.bizarre? 

"When you are about to die, a wombat is better than no company at all."
				Roger Zelazny, *Doorways in the Sand*

						Wombat
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