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ZombyWoof > wrote:
> Axiom #1:
> "The Usenet is not the real world. The Usenet usually does not
even
> resemble the real world."
False Axiom
> Corollary #1:
> "Attempts to change the real world by altering the structure
> of the Usenet is an attempt to work sympathetic magic --
electronic
> voodoo."
> Corollary #2:
> "Arguing about the significance of newsgroup names and their
> relation to the way people really think is equivalent to arguing
> whether it is better to read tea leaves or chicken entrails to
> divine the future."
True Corollaries
>
> 1987 - Gene Spafford
>
1987 was a whole different usenet world
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