rjnoe@riccb.UUCP (Roger J. Noe) (08/28/85)
> create a group called net.fur . . . > 20 people were fur fetishists and thought it > was a great group . . . > --Lauren-- It appears that Lauren Whinebrucespringsteen (I can't remember the last name letter for letter since it's always just "--Lauren--" :-}) has proposed a new newsgroup. In fact, he/she/AI-project has already done the required poll and found 20 people who support the idea. That's got to be some kind of net.record! Only two people wanted net.news.group when it was started, and they were divided over whether or not it should be plural. Everyone else wanted to debate new groups in already established, totally unrelated news groups. And that was one of the most popular of all time. I understand Lauren's fetish completely (how many times have we all said, "somebody I know wants this" when we wanted something ourselves?) and I support the idea of net.fur. But I think we should plan ahead and prepare for other fetish newsgroups. It just wouldn't be right to allow net.fur its own place of honor as a group and then not even allow subgroups for all the other fetishes, like overhead cams and spiral notebooks. In fact, I think there ought to be net.fetish with subgroups to accommodate all the fetishists on the net. Since most of us are hackers, this shouldn't go much further than net.fetish.coke (oh, yes, we'll have to have classic, new, and diet sub-subgroups) and net.fetish.twinkies. And we'll have to include my personal favorite, net.fetish.patiofurniture. (By the way, Lauren, I just took a poll and got 2342397691365 votes for the group and 2 against. Honest! I wouldn't lie to you.) So let's go ahead and create net.fetish and see where it takes us. All in favor, hang up your modems. CLICK! Since it's the end of August and there are lots of Freshpersons new to the net who can't tell serious articles from humor, I am confirming for you all that this article is indeed genuine seriousness, not humor. You didn't laugh at it, did you? -- "It's only by NOT taking the human race seriously that I retain what fragments of my once considerable mental powers I still possess!" Roger Noe ihnp4!ihopa!riccb!rjnoe
djw@lanl.ARPA (08/30/85)
In article <508@riccb.UUCP> rjnoe@riccb.UUCP (Roger J. Noe) writes: > >So let's go ahead and create net.fetish and see where it takes us. > I voted for net.fetish.fur but I have reconsidered. I think that fur is a very private thing and should be hidden behind an anonymous sounding accronym, ( such as motss ). We don't want anyone to be offended by seeing the phrase "teddy bear" now do we? I believe that SWMTB would be appropriate, ( swinging with my teddy bear ). Also; I have been overlooking this net.religion crap long enough. If you can have a Net.religion Net.religion.christian Net.religion.jewish Net.women Net.women.only ( see MOTSS above ) and a mailing list for Wiccan and Buddist and Muslem ( the major faiths that no one will admit to being members of - too plebian ) Then Damnit it's time you had a newsgroup for my religion... Net.Religion.First-Church-of-Immediate-Gratification I know there are many practitioners out there hiding behind quaint little names; Come on out of the closets FCIGers, Announce your needs! We no longer need to hide in our "Yellow Submarine"s... Let's hear it for The First Church of Immediate Gratification where there are no sermons only hermons By the way... The headquarters for The Orthodox Druids is out in California, ( I believe San Diego, but ask a witch ). If you were serious, I'll get it for you. Dave Wade
lauren@vortex.UUCP (Lauren Weinstein) (08/30/85)
You know, people like Roger sometimes make ya' wonder why we hassle with this stuff at all. We're trying to have a fairly serious discussion here, Roger. If you want to joke around, feel free to do so in the appropriate groups. This isn't one of them. Net.fur was about the silliest possible example I could think of for a useless group. My point was that even a silly group like that would attract someone. Apparently I accidently hit one of Roger's favorite topics. --Lauren--