Re: [NTLK] please talk about current affairs somewhere else

From: Eric L. Strobel (fyzycyst_at_home.com)
Date: Wed Sep 12 2001 - 10:16:03 EDT

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at the temporal coordinates: 9/12/01 9:54 AM, the entity known as Brian at
bmcewen_at_mediaone.net conveyed the following:

>
> To interject, in a friendly manner, that's USENET, not necessarily a
> topical mailing list, that you're describing. IMO.
>

Well, yes and no, since newsgroups are generally topical and, if anything,
getting flamed for being off-topic is (in my experience) more commonplace
there. Besides, a good mailing list is, I feel, more of a community. I
have the feeling that many people need multiple outlets of expression after
such an unprecedented event.

- Eric.

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