Commonality of Newsgroups

[Gene Wirchenko]

Dear alt.folklore.computers, rec.arts.sf.written, and
alt.usage.english Denizens:

I have noted over the years that of the thousands of USENET
newsgroup that I have picked, I have many times seen the same names in
more than one of them. As I noted recently, I follow afc and rasfw,
and I used to follow aue (dropped because of time).

We have some very big threads involving the three newsgroups this
is posted to. What is it that makes these newsgroups click?

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

[R H Draney]

Gene Wirchenko filted:

TMJ?...r

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[Ray O'Hara]

"Gene Wirchenko" <ge...@ocis.net> wrote in message
news:0nff9716fs4rr18hd...@4ax.com...

A warped sense of community.

[Joseph Nebus]

In <0nff9716fs4rr18hd...@4ax.com> Gene Wirchenko <ge...@ocis.net> writes:

> We have some very big threads involving the three newsgroups this
>is posted to. What is it that makes these newsgroups click?

For rec.arts.sf.written, it's the urgent drive to beat out
others at YASID requests and claim some glory in the monthly reports.
I can't guess what motivates people in other newsgroups. Indeed, my
analysis demonstrates that they can't possibly exist.

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[the Omrud]

Isn't likely to be the very thing you've noted - Posters In Common?

--
David

[Ahem A Rivet's Shot]

On 14 Oct 2011 10:05:57 GMT
Huge <Hu...@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:

> Isn't it just the case that there are only 47 people left on Usenet?

Not bad going out of the 200 there were at the peak.

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[Adam Funk]

On 2011-10-14, Gene Wirchenko wrote:

> We have some very big threads involving the three newsgroups this
> is posted to. What is it that makes these newsgroups click?

Mice?

--
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[CDB]

Adam Funk wrote:
> Gene Wirchenko wrote:
>
>> We have some very big threads involving the three newsgroups
>> this is posted to. What is it that makes these newsgroups click?
>
> Mice?
>

Flay me, do they have osteoarthritis too?

[The Doctor]

In article <20111014111614....@eircom.net>,

47? In whose nightmare?
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Gene Wirchenko <ge...@ocis.net> wrote in

news:0nff9716fs4rr18hd...@4ax.com:

Synergistic stupidity.

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[Skitt]

Gene Wirchenko wrote:

The people participating in them.

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[Frank S]

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Articulating synthetic joints?

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[bill van]

In article <j78kdl$h3d$1...@reader1.panix.com>,
nebusj-@-rpi-.edu (Joseph Nebus) wrote:

> In <0nff9716fs4rr18hd...@4ax.com> Gene Wirchenko
> <ge...@ocis.net> writes:
>
> > We have some very big threads involving the three newsgroups this
> >is posted to. What is it that makes these newsgroups click?
>
> For rec.arts.sf.written, it's the urgent drive to beat out
> others at YASID requests and claim some glory in the monthly reports.
> I can't guess what motivates people in other newsgroups. Indeed, my
> analysis demonstrates that they can't possibly exist.

Joseph, somebody's impersonating you in a group that can't possibly
exist: alt.fan.cecil-adams. He's helping to generate very big threads.
You should do something.

bill, clickety-click

[MC]

In article <RM-dnVAZyfv_8wXT...@giganews.com>,
"Frank S" <fshe...@san.rr.com> wrote:

J** M*h*r*j?

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[Dimensional Traveler]

Our computer mice.

[John Dunlop]

Adam Funk:

> [Gene Wirchenko:]

>
>> We have some very big threads involving the three newsgroups this
>> is posted to. What is it that makes these newsgroups click?
>
> Mice?

Right, because all the dolphins do is muck about in the water.

--
John

[Jerry Friedman]

Trolling and being trolled?

--
Jerry Friedman

[Peter Moylan]

I thought he did a tour of every group in existence, so that any given
group only suffered an occasional infestation. But perhaps I'm thinking
of someone else.

--
Peter Moylan, Newcastle, NSW, Australia. http://www.pmoylan.org
For an e-mail address, see my web page.

[R H Draney]

Peter Moylan filted:

>
>MC wrote:
>>
>> J** M*h*r*j?
>>
>I thought he did a tour of every group in existence, so that any given
>group only suffered an occasional infestation. But perhaps I'm thinking
>of someone else.

Someone as old as coal, perhaps?...r

[Peter Moylan]

R H Draney wrote:
> Peter Moylan filted:
>> MC wrote:
>>> J** M*h*r*j?
>>>
>> I thought he did a tour of every group in existence, so that any
>> given group only suffered an occasional infestation. But perhaps
>> I'm thinking of someone else.
>
> Someone as old as coal, perhaps?...r
>

My memory must be going, because I can't guess who you mean by that even
though I have vague memories of another pest. Your allusion seems to be
to a royal name, but that doesn't ring a bell or sound a pipe. I know
you're not talking about Bun Mui or the nudist programmer who must not
be named. I do understand that you're talking of someone who must not be
named because he checks for mentions of his name.

The trouble, I suppose, is that we've had so many pests over time that
in my mind they've turned into one generic pest.

[Bill Snyder]

On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 12:19:34 +1100, Peter Moylan
<inv...@peter.pmoylan.org.invalid> wrote:

>R H Draney wrote:
>> Peter Moylan filted:
>>> MC wrote:
>>>> J** M*h*r*j?
>>>>
>>> I thought he did a tour of every group in existence, so that any
>>> given group only suffered an occasional infestation. But perhaps
>>> I'm thinking of someone else.
>>
>> Someone as old as coal, perhaps?...r
>>
>My memory must be going, because I can't guess who you mean by that even
>though I have vague memories of another pest. Your allusion seems to be
>to a royal name, but that doesn't ring a bell or sound a pipe. I know
>you're not talking about Bun Mui or the nudist programmer who must not
>be named. I do understand that you're talking of someone who must not be
>named because he checks for mentions of his name.

<http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Who_is_Ed_Conrad>

>The trouble, I suppose, is that we've had so many pests over time that
>in my mind they've turned into one generic pest.

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[Bill Snyder]

On 14 Oct 2011 15:32:43 -0700, R H Draney <dado...@spamcop.net>
wrote:

>Peter Moylan filted:
>>
>>MC wrote:
>>>
>>> J** M*h*r*j?
>>>
>>I thought he did a tour of every group in existence, so that any given
>>group only suffered an occasional infestation. But perhaps I'm thinking
>>of someone else.
>
>Someone as old as coal, perhaps?...r

Or as big as Bertha, maybe.

[Peter Moylan]

Bill Snyder wrote:
> On 14 Oct 2011 15:32:43 -0700, R H Draney <dado...@spamcop.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Peter Moylan filted:
>>> MC wrote:
>>>> J** M*h*r*j?
>>>>
>>> I thought he did a tour of every group in existence, so that any given
>>> group only suffered an occasional infestation. But perhaps I'm thinking
>>> of someone else.
>> Someone as old as coal, perhaps?...r
>
> Or as big as Bertha, maybe.
>

My understanding is that that one went into killfiles so quickly, or
were just silently skipped, that the person didn't really have much
impact. A bit like the Frances Klug supporter, who has to live with the
knowledge that everyone is ignoring him/her.

[Peter Moylan]

Bill Snyder wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 12:19:34 +1100, Peter Moylan
> <inv...@peter.pmoylan.org.invalid> wrote:
>
>> R H Draney wrote:
>>> Peter Moylan filted:
>>>> MC wrote:
>>>>> J** M*h*r*j?
>>>>>
>>>> I thought he did a tour of every group in existence, so that any
>>>> given group only suffered an occasional infestation. But perhaps
>>>> I'm thinking of someone else.
>>> Someone as old as coal, perhaps?...r
>>>
>> My memory must be going, because I can't guess who you mean by that even
>> though I have vague memories of another pest. Your allusion seems to be
>> to a royal name, but that doesn't ring a bell or sound a pipe. I know
>> you're not talking about Bun Mui or the nudist programmer who must not
>> be named. I do understand that you're talking of someone who must not be
>> named because he checks for mentions of his name.
>
> <http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Who_is_Ed_Conrad>

Ah, I'd forgotten him. Poor fellow. If only he'd taken his rocks
somewhere else, he might have achieved the title of creation scientist.
Although, now that I think of it, his position and theirs were a little
different.

[JRStern]

On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 15:07:22 GMT, djh...@kithrup.com (Dorothy J
Heydt) wrote:

>And then there was the guy who wanted to write a story in which
>the sun went around the earthlike planet. He really wanted his
>solar system to be like that ... but he wanted it to be *science*
>fiction, not fantasy. People explained to him about mass and
>gravity and Newton's laws of motion for weeks, but he just wanted
>a system set up the way he had described, "because God had set it
>up that way in the beginning," and he wanted it to be sf. The
>degree of patience this group showed him was extraordinary. But
>his mind was made up, don't confuse him with facts, and finally
>he went away. Or everybody killfiled him, I forget which.


Sounds pretty easy to me.

Turns out stars are really caused by aggregations of dark matter so
are physically much smaller than in our old universe, have relatively
lower gravitational mass than cold data like a planet, yet have a
second kind of attraction, only to other dark matter aggregations,
that accounts for the shape of the galaxy.

So what about the luminosity of other stars? Well, there are channels
between dark matter objects that make them appear much brighter than
they would if light had to come through normal space. Get too far
from a star - and everything gets much darker! OTOH maybe you can
warp drive between stars down those same channels. Convenient!

One thing you're gonna have trouble with is phases of Venus and orbits
of the other planets, hmm. Well, that just has to go, they will have
to orbit the Earth, and maybe their content of dark matter (and the
Earth's) can vary to make it work. And phases of the moon are going
to be very different. Let's see, ... better put the sun out about a
million miles from the Earth, so it doesn't entirely burn up the back
side of the moon. Couple of million miles maybe, so how does it even
stay in orbit? Dark matter! String theory! Orbitanium! You can
always introduce some hidden variables to explain anything.

J.

[Jon Schild]

On 10/13/2011 10:50 PM, Gene Wirchenko wrote:
> Dear alt.folklore.computers, rec.arts.sf.written, and
> alt.usage.english Denizens:
>
> I have noted over the years that of the thousands of USENET
> newsgroup that I have picked, I have many times seen the same names in
> more than one of them. As I noted recently, I follow afc and rasfw,
> and I used to follow aue (dropped because of time).
>
> We have some very big threads involving the three newsgroups this
> is posted to. What is it that makes these newsgroups click?
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Gene Wirchenko

I don't know. I only read rec.arts.sf.written, and not all of it.

[alie...@gmail.com]

On Oct 13, 9:50 pm, Gene Wirchenko <ge...@ocis.net> wrote:
> Dear alt.folklore.computers, rec.arts.sf.written, and
> alt.usage.english Denizens:
>
>      I have noted over the years that of the thousands of USENET
> newsgroup that I have picked, I have many times seen the same names in
> more than one of them.  As I noted recently, I follow afc and rasfw,
> and I used to follow aue (dropped because of time).
>
>     We have some very big threads involving the three newsgroups this
> is posted to.  What is it that makes these newsgroups click?
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Gene Wirchenko

I concur with those that deduce a commonality of posters. I read
rasfw because I'm interested in written SF. I read ark because I'm
weird, and I read threads that get crossposted from aue and afc into
ark. Since I'm interested in topics discussed in those groups, I
participate in threads in those groups so it's reasonably likely I
participate in threads crossposted into all of them. Though I must
note that very few threads get crossposted into both rasfw and ark...

Messages get crossposted all over the Usenet hierarchy and I'm
willing to be it isn't hard to look for common, persistent patterns
indicating the frequency of combinations of interests implied by
participation in the groups crossposted to. That might provide some
insight into the worldview of posters from the groups they participate
in...

Not that I'm interested in doing the pattern-finding and insight-
extracting. Trying to figure out why I read the groups I do is
sufficiently confusing.


Mark L. Fergerson

[Dorothy J Heydt]

In article <a110f6c3-e383-440e...@8g2000prd.googlegroups.com>,

nu...@bid.nes <alie...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I concur with those that deduce a commonality of posters. I read
>rasfw because I'm interested in written SF. I read ark because I'm
>weird, and I read threads that get crossposted from aue and afc into
>ark. Since I'm interested in topics discussed in those groups, I
>participate in threads in those groups so it's reasonably likely I
>participate in threads crossposted into all of them. Though I must
>note that very few threads get crossposted into both rasfw and ark...

Just out of curiosity, what's ark?

--
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Vallejo, California
djheydt at gmail dot com
Should you wish to email me, you'd better use the gmail edress.
Kithrup's all spammy and hotmail's been hacked.

[Jared]

On 10/16/2011 12:47 AM, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
> In article<a110f6c3-e383-440e...@8g2000prd.googlegroups.com>,
> nu...@bid.nes<alie...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I concur with those that deduce a commonality of posters. I read
>> rasfw because I'm interested in written SF. I read ark because I'm
>> weird, and I read threads that get crossposted from aue and afc into
>> ark. Since I'm interested in topics discussed in those groups, I
>> participate in threads in those groups so it's reasonably likely I
>> participate in threads crossposted into all of them. Though I must
>> note that very few threads get crossposted into both rasfw and ark...
>
> Just out of curiosity, what's ark?
>

alt.religion.kibology

--
Jared

[Anotamouse]

On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 21:50:37 -0700, Gene Wirchenko <ge...@ocis.net>
wrote:
<bit bin>

> We have some very big threads involving the three newsgroups this
>is posted to. What is it that makes these newsgroups click?
>

Seems to be an 'age appropriate' twitter - for folks who like to think
before they speak.

[David DeLaney]

"Worship of and/or scorn for Kibo"

Who, alas, has only graced us with a yearly Christmas Spot story for some
years now. We believe he found a Life somewhere.

Dave
--
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It's not the clock that slows the hour The definition's plain for anyone to see
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http://www.vic.com/~dbd/ - net.legends FAQ & Magic / I WUV you in all CAPS! --K.

[Adam Funk]

On 2011-10-16, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:

> In article <a110f6c3-e383-440e...@8g2000prd.googlegroups.com>,
> nu...@bid.nes <alie...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I concur with those that deduce a commonality of posters. I read
>>rasfw because I'm interested in written SF. I read ark because I'm
>>weird, and I read threads that get crossposted from aue and afc into
>>ark. Since I'm interested in topics discussed in those groups, I
>>participate in threads in those groups so it's reasonably likely I
>>participate in threads crossposted into all of them. Though I must
>>note that very few threads get crossposted into both rasfw and ark...
>
> Just out of curiosity, what's ark?

$20, same as in town!

http://wikibology.wikispaces.com/Kibology


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pendere, et cum illi pueri dicerent: beable beable beable; respondebat
illa: doidy doidy doidy. [plorkwort]

[Walter Bushell]

In article <Lt61p...@kithrup.com>,

djh...@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) wrote:

>

> Don't think so. He wanted a Ptolemaic, earth-centered universe,
> but he wanted it to be scientifically feasible ... but his only
> justification for it appeared to be "because God wanted it that
> way."

Why go half way. Go with the Diskworld system. Circular disk for the
world, supported by 4 elephants standing on the back of a turtle.

--
It is the nature of the human species to reject what is true but unpleasant
and to embrace what is obviously false but comforting. -- H. L. Mencken

[Dorothy J Heydt]

In article <proto-AB800E....@news.panix.com>,

Walter Bushell <pr...@panix.com> wrote:
>In article <Lt61p...@kithrup.com>,
> djh...@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) wrote:
>
>>
>> Don't think so. He wanted a Ptolemaic, earth-centered universe,
>> but he wanted it to be scientifically feasible ... but his only
>> justification for it appeared to be "because God wanted it that
>> way."
>
>Why go half way. Go with the Diskworld system. Circular disk for the
>world, supported by 4 elephants standing on the back of a turtle.

I don't recall whether anybody suggested that. The guy wanted
his system HIS way, and finally dropped out of the conversation,
getting tired of No you can't.

[alie...@gmail.com]

On 10/15/2011 9:03 AM, JRStern wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 15:07:22 GMT, djh...@kithrup.com (Dorothy J
> Heydt) wrote:
>
>> And then there was the guy who wanted to write a story in which
>> the sun went around the earthlike planet. He really wanted his
>> solar system to be like that ... but he wanted it to be *science*
>> fiction, not fantasy. People explained to him about mass and
>> gravity and Newton's laws of motion for weeks, but he just wanted
>> a system set up the way he had described, "because God had set it
>> up that way in the beginning," and he wanted it to be sf. The
>> degree of patience this group showed him was extraordinary. But
>> his mind was made up, don't confuse him with facts, and finally
>> he went away. Or everybody killfiled him, I forget which.
>
>
> Sounds pretty easy to me.
>
> Turns out stars are really caused by aggregations of dark matter so
> are physically much smaller than in our old universe, have relatively
> lower gravitational mass than cold data like a planet, yet have a
> second kind of attraction, only to other dark matter aggregations,
> that accounts for the shape of the galaxy.

Don't need dark matter; there's two kinds of matter, "cold" and
"hot"- cold makes planets (and all other what we'd call ordinary
matter), hot makes stars. CM can accumulate around HM creating hot
planetary cores, hence opposites attract, but there's a short-range
repulsion that's only overcome by gravity. Only so much HM can
accumulate in one place before it collapses due to some exclusion
principle, meaning no large stars but lots of medium-small black holes.
Same for CM, but a MSBH is a MSBH.

(I think this supports caloric-fluid thermodynamics.)

Small accumulations of HM and CM can organize and locally reverse
their entropy, or be alive.

A riff on Baxter out of Niven, with angels made of organized pure HM
(light) inhabiting stars, and djinni made of pure CM (smoke) inhabiting
Earth?

People would be mostly organized CM with a small, complicated knot of
HM, or "soul" (maybe all living things?). Angels and djinni can "borrow"
some CM to make temporary bodies or interweave themselves into
weakly-knotted souls (possess people).

> So what about the luminosity of other stars? Well, there are channels
> between dark matter objects that make them appear much brighter than
> they would if light had to come through normal space. Get too far
> from a star - and everything gets much darker! OTOH maybe you can
> warp drive between stars down those same channels. Convenient!

The angels will have interstellar travel and commo via the channels,
but the djinni will be "imprisoned" in planets. The angels' network is
called Heaven. The local djinni call the core of Earth "Hell".

This almost demands other Earths orbiting other MSBHs, but that may
be a Sacred Mystery.

> One thing you're gonna have trouble with is phases of Venus and orbits
> of the other planets, hmm. Well, that just has to go, they will have
> to orbit the Earth, and maybe their content of dark matter (and the
> Earth's) can vary to make it work. And phases of the moon are going
> to be very different. Let's see, ... better put the sun out about a
> million miles from the Earth, so it doesn't entirely burn up the back
> side of the moon. Couple of million miles maybe, so how does it even
> stay in orbit? Dark matter! String theory! Orbitanium! You can
> always introduce some hidden variables to explain anything.

OK, so everything orbits Earth, which God decided would be the
central body in this system. The "sun" is a black hole shining by um
Hawking radiation + infall emissions, orbiting several dozen million
miles out. Yeah, actually co-orbiting with Earth, but... all celestial
bodies are actually much smaller and closer than they appear due to an
undetectable layer capping our atmosphere made of, I dunno, Coronium
magnifying their apparent size and distorting their apparent motions
because it has a negative refractive index or something and isn't
spherical (hey, if we're playing fast and loose with Newton's physics we
might as well ring in his optics too).

"Stars" also have Coronium shells, which is what enables the angels'
FTL capability by forming bridges between accumulations of HM (it does
that because God wants it to); there are "roads" and "gates" in the
channels. They have control of the Gate between Heaven and Hell, of
course. When people die, their souls naturally fall to the center of the
earth (where the djinni are) unless a watching angel biases the Gate
just enough to let the deceased into Heaven (along the narrow Way). Why
do angels watch humans, and Gate some into Heaven? God told them to, of
course.

God, BTW, manifests as a pure HM lifeform whose wavefunction is spread
over all accumulations of HM, so he's more or less everywhere
simultaneously- Heaven is His body/mind, the channels and gates are His
axons and synapses.

How sciences might develop in this universe is beyond me. Maybe all
Newtons are insane.


Mark L. Fergerson

[Dr Nick]

Adam Funk <a24...@ducksburg.com> writes:

> On 2011-10-14, Gene Wirchenko wrote:
>
>> We have some very big threads involving the three newsgroups this
>> is posted to. What is it that makes these newsgroups click?
>

> Mice?

Reindeer.
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[Adam Funk]

On 2011-10-17, nu...@bid.nes wrote:

> "Stars" also have Coronium shells, which is what enables the angels'
> FTL capability by forming bridges between accumulations of HM (it does
> that because God wants it to); there are "roads" and "gates" in the
> channels. They have control of the Gate between Heaven and Hell, of
> course. When people die, their souls naturally fall to the center of the
> earth (where the djinni are) unless a watching angel biases the Gate
> just enough to let the deceased into Heaven (along the narrow Way). Why
> do angels watch humans, and Gate some into Heaven? God told them to, of
> course.
>
> God, BTW, manifests as a pure HM lifeform whose wavefunction is spread
> over all accumulations of HM, so he's more or less everywhere
> simultaneously- Heaven is His body/mind, the channels and gates are His
> axons and synapses.

IYTM GuV not BTW?


--
English has perfect phonetic spelling. It just doesn't have phonetic
pronunciation. [Peter Moylan]

[Dr. HotSalt]

On Oct 18, 1:15 pm, Adam Funk <a24...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> On 2011-10-17, n...@bid.nes wrote:
> >    "Stars" also have Coronium shells, which is what enables the angels'
> > FTL capability by forming bridges between accumulations of HM (it does
> > that because God wants it to); there are "roads" and "gates" in the
> > channels. They have control of the Gate between Heaven and Hell, of
> > course. When people die, their souls naturally fall to the center of the
> > earth (where the djinni are) unless a watching angel biases the Gate
> > just enough to let the deceased into Heaven (along the narrow Way). Why
> > do angels watch humans, and Gate some into Heaven? God told them to, of
> > course.

(For those wondering WTF? this is about a very silly worldbuilding
thread in RASFW)

> >   God, BTW, manifests as a pure HM lifeform whose wavefunction is spread
> > over all accumulations of HM, so he's more or less everywhere
> > simultaneously- Heaven is His body/mind, the channels and gates are His
> > axons and synapses.
>
> IYTM GuV not BTW?

Only appropriate in one of the cross-posted groups. The others
(likely) wouldn't geddit.

Also, you just HAD to crosspost something into both RASFW and ARK,
didn't you?

I should have known. Oh, well.


Dr. HotSalt

[Peter T. Daniels]

So. Complaints about malicious crossposting arise in other newsgroups
as well.

Followups set.

[Dr. HotSalt]

> So. Complaints about malicious crossposting arise in other newsgroups
> as well.

For the slow of researching, the statement (not "complaint")
references the title of this thread, which originated in RASFS. It was
mentioned that certain permutations of the original group list had
been seen in crossposts, very few (if any) of which included RASFW and
ARK.

Adam fixed that with possibly the first ever crosspost including
those two groups. What does he win?

Of course, the topic relevance in the language-related groups is the
"GuV" (which should be G_u_v indicating the u and v are subscripts;
Adam, you ought to know better) reference from George Hammond's SPOG,
in which the psychometric curvature tensor of an individual equates to
their perception of God.

> Followups set.

Followups reset. I know G_u_v, and you, sir, are no G_u_v.


Dr. HotSalt

[Adam Funk]

NTTIAWWT

> Also, you just HAD to crosspost something into both RASFW and ARK,
> didn't you?

NTTIAWWT, and I'm not the first.


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[Adam Funk]

On 2011-10-20, Dr. HotSalt wrote:

> For the slow of researching, the statement (not "complaint")
> references the title of this thread, which originated in RASFS. It was
> mentioned that certain permutations of the original group list had
> been seen in crossposts, very few (if any) of which included RASFW and
> ARK.
>
> Adam fixed that with possibly the first ever crosspost including
> those two groups. What does he win?

No way, David DeLaney did it in August, and very helpfully.

> Of course, the topic relevance in the language-related groups is the
> "GuV" (which should be G_u_v indicating the u and v are subscripts;
> Adam, you ought to know better) reference from George Hammond's SPOG,
> in which the psychometric curvature tensor of an individual equates to
> their perception of God.

You're right that I should know better, and thanks for pointing that
out, but I just checked a few [HAMMOND]s and found "G_uv".


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[Bill Snyder]

Ahh, Hammond. I was just recently reminded that I'm on this
"stalkerazzi" list of people who have dared to argue with him.

[David DeLaney]

Dr. HotSalt <alie...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> So. Complaints about malicious crossposting arise in other newsgroups
>> as well.
>
> For the slow of researching, the statement (not "complaint")
>references the title of this thread, which originated in RASFS. It was
>mentioned that certain permutations of the original group list had
>been seen in crossposts, very few (if any) of which included RASFW and
>ARK.
>
> Adam fixed that with possibly the first ever crosspost including
>those two groups. What does he win?

Far from the first ever. Mark has done it; I've done it; I'm fairly sure that
in the dim depths of September Kibo did it at least once.

>> Followups set.
>
> Followups reset. I know G_u_v, and you, sir, are no G_u_v.

Dave "not touching the followups until they've finished microwaving" DeLaney

[Walter Bushell]

In article <-pWdnWP_09Tr7TjT...@csd.net>,
Dave Pitts <dpi...@cozx.com> wrote:


> Are you sure that he's not a Republidiot candidate for President in the USA?
> They too, seem to deny any scientific evidence that contradicts their getting
> elected...

Being in denial of science and reality in general is only a sufficient
condition for making a serious run for the Republican nomination for
President.

[jmfbahciv]

Walter Bushell wrote:
> In article <-pWdnWP_09Tr7TjT...@csd.net>,
> Dave Pitts <dpi...@cozx.com> wrote:
>
>
>> Are you sure that he's not a Republidiot candidate for President in the
USA?
>> They too, seem to deny any scientific evidence that contradicts their
getting
>> elected...
>
> Being in denial of science and reality in general is only a sufficient
> condition for making a serious run for the Republican nomination for
> President.
>

Nor Democrats.

/BAH