[Moorcock] Newsgroup Proposal (semi-topical)

[Paul Mather]

David Zeiger writes:

> As someone who used to regularly contribute to alt.config (I still read
> it, but I don't have time to post much anymore), I can almost guarantee
> that the group, under that name, will get unbelieveably crappy
> propagation.  Worse than alt.music.blueoystercult even (and that group
> had a bogus control message...)
>
> The reasons are twofold...
>
> 1) If alt is the sewer of usenet, alt.fan is the sludge at the bottom.
> alt.fan is widely regarded as continining little but joke/revenge
> newsgroups (witness the proliferation of alt.fan.(my roommate) type
> groups).

...except for alt.fan.frank-zappa, which was once the best newsgroup
on usenet, bar none (before Zoogz Rift et al climbed aboard and things
started to nose downhill).

Btw, alt.fan.blueoystercult never did turn up at our site, and we seem
to take every crappy newsgroup that heads our way.  Did the net.police
send out a rmgroup message to eradicate it?...

Did anyone on BOC-L ever read anything on it???

Cheers,

Paul.

obCD: Brain Surgeons, _Eponymous_

e-mail: paul at csgrad.cs.vt.edu                    A stranger in a strange land.