[net.test] Does anyone actually read net.test?

ins_akaa@jhunix.UUCP (Ken Arromdee) (05/01/86)

>>> Well, *I* read this group, but I don't think anyone else does.
>>> (Just seeing if any of you read the headers.)
>>	Yea.. Well I read this stuff too, sometimes
>>	it can be funnier than net.jokes!!!
>I have a confession to make...I read this, too.  For months, I was a "closet"
>net.test reader, embarrassed to post for fear of ridicule.  I had to move my 
>terminal into a closet whenever I used rn, in case someone might be looking
>over my shoulder.  I chmod'd my .newsrc in case someone might peek to see
>what groups I subscribe to.  Please, don't give away my secret.  I might
>lose my job.  My family would disown me.

I confess to also being a net.test reader...  this group is on occasion
more bizarre than either net.rumor or bizarre-people...
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mcb@k.cs.cmu.edu.UUCP (05/04/86)

In article <2696@jhunix.UUCP> ins_akaa@jhunix.ARPA (Ken Arromdee) writes:
>>>> Well, *I* read this group, but I don't think anyone else does.
>>>> (Just seeing if any of you read the headers.)
>>>	Yea.. Well I read this stuff too, sometimes
>>>	it can be funnier than net.jokes!!!
>>I have a confession to make...I read this, too. For months, I was a "closet"
>>net.test reader, embarrassed to post for fear of ridicule. I had to move my 
>>terminal into a closet whenever I used rn, in case someone might be looking
>>over my shoulder.  I chmod'd my .newsrc in case someone might peek to see
>>what groups I subscribe to.  Please, don't give away my secret.  I might
>>lose my job.  My family would disown me.
>
>I confess to also being a net.test reader...  this group is on occasion
>more bizarre than either net.rumor or bizarre-people...

I'm constantly amazed at the groups in which I find bizarre people posting.
I expect them in net.rumor and net.news.group, and I was somewhat surprised
to find them in net.suicide.  But I don't think that I EVER expected to find
any bizarreness in net.test.  I guess it makes sense though.  After all,
net.test is a perfectly good newsgroup without a "normal" readership to be
bothered by an occasional strange article.

Invasion of net.test anyone?

"This is just a test.  Can anyone confirm this?"
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zben@umd5.UUCP (Ben Cranston) (05/06/86)

Sure, I read it with my C key (spoiler below)*.

*** For Dave Carter:

> Article 759 of net.test:
> Relay-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site umd5.UUCP
> Path: umd5!cvl!umcp-cs!seismo!harvard!husc6!talcott!panda!genrad!mit-eddie!mit-trillian!carter
> From: carter@mit-trillian.MIT.EDU (Dave Carter)
> Newsgroups: net.test
> Subject: Re: Proposal for net.test.d
> Message-ID: <377@mit-trillian.MIT.EDU>
> Date: 30 Apr 86 20:03:21 GMT
> Date-Received: 2 May 86 03:32:03 GMT
> References: <357@astroatc.UUCP>
> Reply-To: carter@mit-athena.mit.edu (Dave Carter)
> Distribution: na
> Organization: MIT, Project Athena, Cambridge, MA
> Lines: 18
> ....
> BTW, do our postings ever make it past 3 hops?  They don't
> seem to, judging from responses (or lack thereof.)
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* In the "RN" program the C key marks the current group as all read... :-)

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cccsam@ucdavis.UUCP (Sam McCall - Hacker In Residency) (05/27/86)

> >>> Well, *I* read this group, but I don't think anyone else does.
> >>> (Just seeing if any of you read the headers.)
> >>	Yea.. Well I read this stuff too, sometimes
> >>	it can be funnier than net.jokes!!!
> >I have a confession to make...I read this, too.  For months, I was a "closet"
> >net.test reader, embarrassed to post for fear of ridicule.  I had to move my 
> >terminal into a closet whenever I used rn, in case someone might be looking
> >over my shoulder.  I chmod'd my .newsrc in case someone might peek to see
> >what groups I subscribe to.  Please, don't give away my secret.  I might
> >lose my job.  My family would disown me.
> 
> I confess to also being a net.test reader...  this group is on occasion
> more bizarre than either net.rumor or bizarre-people...
> -- 
> Kenneth Arromdee                                               |      |
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alas, so do i.


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