[talk.bizarre] The Official List of Stupid Newsgroups

xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) (04/04/91)

dave@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (David Wenger) writes:

> Not too long ago, it was rumored, some guys at psu.edu acquired a root
> shell and started propagating newsgroups. Since we were down stream of
> them, I saved a list of the new newsgroups that day, though they were
> quickly negated.

Well, you certainly uncovered a problem with your news reading software
that is going to cause problems as the net news hierarchy deepens and
grows more complex.  Did you _look_ at what you saved?

> psu.beaver.good.for.me.good.for.:
> psu.brass.monkey.that.funky.monk:
> psu.cac.fascist.is.an.understate:
> psu.churches.and.stuff.suck.cuz.:
> psu.commerce.is.a.boring.topic.d:
> psu.drugs.taking.but.i.can.deal.:
> psu.drugs.wow.man.this.is.intens:
> psu.fraternity.drink.til.you.can:
> psu.grad.student.sexual.discrimi:
> psu.huggies.and.kissies.is.too.d:
> psu.if.you.want.it.here.it.is.co:
> psu.jack.and.jill.went.up.the.hi:
> psu.lgsa.in.the.closet.and.lovin:
> psu.neeto.stuff.to.do.in.your.sp:
> psu.netnews.etiquette.forced.dow:
> psu.suicide.come.on.everyones.do:
> psu.obt.wru.dck.cul.wdi.dcia.icl:
> psu.rollin.rollin.rollin.down.th:
> psu.sorority.introduce.yourself.:
> psu.sorority.tie.a.board.around.:
> psu.sponsor.a.child.eq.give.me.y:
> psu.suicide.because.of.stupid.et:
> psu.suicide.fun.for.me.fun.for.y:
> psu.suicide.its.the.way.of.the.n:
> psu.try.and.get.me.now.you.spazm:
> psu.virgins.until.that.one.night:
> psu.work.all.night.sleep.all.day:

Luckily, the one of historical importance survived:

> psu.girls.have.big.tits:

And two look like later additions, since they don't match the pattern
of the above fairly consistent bug.

> alt.gourmet.chocolate.covered.onions:
> comp.sys.atari.chomps.the.big.one:

Kent, the man from xanth.
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