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From: faunt@hplabs.UUCP (Doug Faunt)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: net.bizarre
Message-ID: <2208@hplabs.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 19-Sep-85 15:37:12 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 19 15:37:12 1985
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> cause more grief than it's creation.  People now have an outlet (and I
> feel a reasonably good one) for creativity and silliness (there is no
> net.silly), and as a result, postings of this sort have left the
> net.flame area.  Flame has returned to more of what it ought to be:
> angry ravings, and unmoderated arguments.  It has lost a lot of its
> silliness, and probably a lot of its readers, AND traffic volume.
> 

> the other users before taking it away?  Maybe we need the creation of
> net.silly????????    (half-joke)
> 
net.news.group seems to be doing just fine as a stand-in for net.silly.
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