heiby@cuae2.UUCP (Heiby) (11/20/85)
I found the following article in net.general. (It's an experiment to
see if it's still full of junk.) I can't believe that Brian actually
posted this to net.general. Check out the Path:, though. If my suspicions
are unfounded, I apologize.
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From: reid@Glacier.ARPA (Brian Reid)
Newsgroups: net.general
Subject: momentous event on Sesame Street
Message-ID: <1317@Glacier.ARPA>
Date: 18 Nov 85 20:01:30 GMT
Date-Received: 20 Nov 85 20:12:17 GMT
Organization: Stanford University, Computer Systems Lab
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In today's episode (11/18/85) of Sesame Street, the cast finally meets
Mr. Snuffleupagus. This incredible event has been in the works for
16 years. In the SF Bay area you can watch it at 5:30 p.m. on
Channel 9.
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Brian Reid decwrl!glacier!reid
Stanford reid@SU-Glacier.ARPA
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"I am not a number! I am a free man!" (#6)reid@Glacier.ARPA (Brian Reid) (11/22/85)
In article <1667@cuae2.UUCP> heiby@cuae2.UUCP (Ron Heiby) writes: >see if it's still full of junk.) I can't believe that Brian actually >posted this to net.general. I must confess that I did indeed post it to net.general. Please remember that it was 7:45 in the morning. Perhaps my brain was burned out by seeing net.general containing one too many advertisements for dinette sets in central New Jersey or requests to buy a mountain bike. My line of thinking went kind of like this: (1) I would like to reach people who grew up watching Sesame Street. What is their current defining attribute? Are they likely to read net.tv? net.kids? Probably not. net.tv is for people who watch tv now; those people probably already know about the Sesame street thing because it has probably been advertised (??)(I told you it was 7:45 in the morning). (2) I am putting a "ba" distribution on this anyhow, so it probably doesn't make a lot of difference. Given that I got a reply from Sweden and one from Ontario, I am betting that somehow I managed to bungle the "ba" distribution field that I thought I put there. P.S. I got about 40 replies saying "thank you--I haven't watched Sesame Street in years and this was a lot of fun." Mission accomplished. -- Brian Reid decwrl!glacier!reid Stanford reid@SU-Glacier.ARPA