essick (07/20/82)
#R:fortune:-12800:uiucdcs:11200008:000:238 uiucdcs!essick Jul 20 13:47:00 1982 Flamity flame flame. Can someone please explain to me the rationale behind creating net.wobegon when just a month ago everyone screamed (well, enough people anyway) about net.sctv? Ray Essick University of Illinois uiucdcs!essick
thor (12/03/82)
Maybe this should have gone in net.jokes so sorry if I offend anyone's sensibilties. I am proposing a new newsgroup called net.stupid so that people who respond to the net with opinions other than your own will have a place to put them. If you didn't like it please skip the hate mail.
ark (02/24/83)
We have net.wines and net.women, so now how about net.song?
smk@linus.UUCP (Steven M. Kramer) (08/20/83)
Due to the traffic in net.general, net.followup, and net.news,
a positive vote on net.legal, and a non-transitory type of nature
of the group, I created net.legal. I think it's time has come.
PS -- I was suprised to not see a single article against the
formation of the group. This was the first time for that (except for
the mysterious appearance of net.announce [not really too mysterious]).
--
--steve kramer
{allegra,genrad,ihnp4,utzoo,philabs,uw-beaver}!linus!smk (UUCP)
linus!smk@mitre-bedford (ARPA)sloane@noscvax.UUCP (03/09/84)
I am very much in favor of creating an apple mac/lisa newsgroup -
but *not* in calling it net.micro.mac. According to all of APPLE
Corps literature, the mac is a (small) part of their thrust into
32 bit micros, using "lisa technology". Therefore I propose that
the group be called net.micro.lisa after the family of computers
APPLE proposes, not merely a single member of the family. If a
precedent is set for naming newsgroups in net.micro after specific
machines (imagine net.micro.pc and net.micro.xt) instead of after
generic categories, then the groups will proliferate uncontrollably.
Gary K. Sloane
Naval Ocean Systems Center
Code 9122 Building 1 Room B205
San Diego, California 92152
MILNET: sloane@nosc
UUCP: ...{sdcsvax}!noscvax!sloanehollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (The Polymath) (12/12/85)
In article <128@mrstve.UUCP> mark@mrstve.UUCP (Mark Smith) writes: > > Just taking a poll on how many people would be interested in a FRP news- >group where you don't talk about FRP games, but you PLAY them. This could >easily be set up like the AD&D by mail seen in Dragon Magazine tm., etc, where >you are given a verbose description of your surrounding, objects, monsters, etc,and you respond with your actions. The number of turns would be 5 or 6 per weekand it would be a lot cheaper than playing by mail. I vote against. There are already several pbm games going on over the net using e-mail. This seems to me to be the appropriate way to implement such a thing. I see no reason to further burden the net by sending game scenarios and moves all over the world to sites where no one's even reading the group, let alone playing the game. -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ The Polymath (aka: Jerry Hollombe) Citicorp(+)TTI The more I work with C, the more I 3100 Ocean Park Blvd. appreciate the simple elegance of Santa Monica, CA 90405 FORTRAN. (213) 450-9111, ext. 2483 {philabs,randvax,trwrb,vortex}!ttidca!ttidcc!hollombe
roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) (12/14/85)
In article <128@mrstve.UUCP> mark@mrstve.UUCP (Mark Smith) writes: > Just taking a poll on how many people would be interested in a FRP news- >group where you don't talk about FRP games, but you PLAY them. As I pointed out a while ago on net.games.pbm, it is absurd to use a newsgroup to communicate with the small number of people in a particular game. Not only is it far more expensive than email, it's slower and less reliable. Use the newsgroup to look for players, but once you have the game organized, use email to distribute each turn's results. No reason why this has to shut out kibbitzers and onlookers; they can be on the game's mailing list as well. BTW, I've added a "Followup-to: net.news.group", where this type of discussion belongs. If you care about this and don't already subscribe to net.news.group, do so now so you don't miss out. -- Roy Smith <allegra!phri!roy> System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016