Excuse my ignorance, but where did alt.meow originate...
Abnerian
say "meow" a lot? How long has it been around?
Maxmilian h. Draconis
> And what was the original purpose of it? Is it just because it's fun to
> say "meow" a lot? How long has it been around?
alt.meow was first suggested by David Rosenfield in 1997, here's a clip of
the post.
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This is a proposal to create the newsgroup alt.meow
Beginning in January of 1996, a bizzare series of events led to the
creation of vast amounts of "meow" spam. Several posters found it
entertaining to flood various newsgroups at random with articles
containing "meow meow this meow meow that," etc. Until about six
weeks ago, the problem was completely out of hand.
Today, there are many people who wish to discuss meow, and how it came
to be, or just post meow articles in a non-malicious manner. The only
such forum that exists for this purpose today is
alt.fan.karl-malden.nose. As AFKMN in completely flooded with flames,
people who may have questions about meowing have no easy, self-defined
group for this purpose.
I consider it fitting that a meow group be placed in alt.* since that
is where the bulk of the meow attacks occurred (with a few exceptions
- e.g. rec.pets.cats).
For more information, see http://www.itol.com/~slforbes/meow/
----------David Rosenfield (rosen...@cs.wisc.edu)------------
"Seriously, the guy will say absolutely anything which
pops into his head if it serves his whims."
-Barry Shein on Steve Boursey, in <x5enlsxa05....@world.std.com>