Posted by dorayme on 09/15/07 22:51

In article <5l33msF682f8U2@mid.individual.net>,
Harlan Messinger <hmessinger.removethis@comcast.net> wrote:

> In fact, it has nothing to do with HTML. The fact that the file in HTML
> has nothing to do with what you were asking about.

> Usenet isn't just one big undifferentiated
> newsgroup. It should be obvious.

Naturally, I can only shuffle in here subserviently bent over in
slippers and with a sheepish look and... nah... bugger that. Best
form of defence is attack.

I think a regular like OP can be cut some slack, it was very
interesting (reminds me of some uses I have made of extra
accounts on a Mac and made me more alive to other possibilities,
but naturally I better not go into it here... I don't want to
make you real mad Harlan).

If you want to play "lets be perfectly correct", play with me. I
will paint you a picture of a sort of Orwellian nightmare where
every question, everything that someone has to share has its
proper newsgroup. The opposite of your "one big
undifferentiated".

Priests would hover above it all and enforce ze rules in ze most
strict vashion, there would be ten hundred trillion groups, each
with tightly designed topic and God help anyone who mentions one
thing in one which ought really to be in another.

I cannot think of a more congenial way of starting my Sunday than
this post. <g>

--
dorayme

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