chabot@amber.DEC (L S Chabot) (11/01/84)
Stu Friedberg == > > Unless some site previously refused to forward "wobegon", there was > NOTHING POSTED in this group for a period of over 7 months (as received > at this site) until just a week or so ago when the question came up > about folk music and so forth. Unless "NOTHING" means you didn't like the content, Stu, your theory about unforwarded net.wobegon postings is correct. Looking through a pile of old mail (I get these things as digests), I see I saved an article dated Thu Sep 20 posted by teklds!gk entitled "End of the Trail" by Garrison Keillor, which is a posting of the article about the capture of the last five cigarette smokers in America (which I believe was published in The Atlantic Monthly). This is a concrete example, but I remember several more from this summer: discussions about the 10 year anniversary show, wistful comments about how we wish the show wasn't on tour (during the early summer, when reruns were being rebroadcast), questions about Wireless. Heavens, even I posted some stuff this summer. Anybody know how to find out if sites are not forwarding net.wobegon? Other people's comments about the difficulties encounted with "net.music.classical" strike me as irrelevant--why bother discussing it at length in net.music: can't somebody just go off and create the new newsgroup and then tell people about it? It's happened before. There is clearly demand (==enough traffic) for net.music.folk, and it would be a findable place for new usenet people to find this topic if they're interested. Anyway, back to the topic of the newsgroup: my schedule lately hasn't allowed me to be near the clock radio at the right times on Saturday, which is mildly disappointing--got to remember to ask to turn on the car stereo if I'm out riding around with friends. Anyhoo, I got *2* copies of the Christmas Wireless--anybody need one? (first letter asking for it and containing a USMail address will get it) For you folk music types, it does have records and cassettes of APHC regulars and guests. For cat lovers, unfortunately some of my favorites of Bertha's advertised products are still not available (ankle deodorant, elm bark panelling and slip-covers), so I guess I'll have to wait until I can drive to The Dales. L S Chabot UUCP: ...decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-amber!chabot ARPA: ...chabot%amber.DEC@decwrl.ARPA USFail: DEC, MR03-1/K20, 2 Iron Way, Marlborough, MA 01752 shadow: [ISSN 0018-9162 v17 #10 p7, bottom vt100, col3, next to next to last]