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From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: looking for groups
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2025 12:32:31 -0400 (EDT)
Organization: Former users of Netcom shell (1989-2000)
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Ethan Carter  <ec1828@somewhere.edu> wrote:
>How long have you been on the USENET?  It used to have a lot of traffic.
>Deleting groups seems to be a very hard thing to do.  But, yes, the fact
>that these above belong to the alt node, they might have been created in
>an experimental impulse.

This is why many sites still carry:
alt.newbie
alt.newbies
alt.best.of.internet
alt.herve.villechaize.dead.dead.dead
alt.fan.roger.david.carasso
alt.politics.bush
alt.politics.clinton
alt.politics.perot
alt.politics.gooley
alt.fan.gooley
alt.job.gooley
alt.gobment.lones
alt.wanted.moslem.men
alt.wanted.moslem.women
alt.wanted.moslem.gay
alt.imploding.kibo
alt.aldus.freehand
alt.fractal-design.painter
alt.pixar.typestry
alt.fan.howard-sterm.fartman
alt.flame.marshal.perlman.weenie
alt.flame.hairy-douchebag.merrideth-tanner

In spite of Roger Carasso having died a decade ago and many of the flame
wars which caused his creation of these groups being long gone.  Although
Meridith Tanner is still around.

At least alt.drugs.i.am.totaly.wasted seems to have disappeared.
--scott

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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."