"'Usenet' is this big thing with the things and the other stuff, plus nerds."- David Pacheco
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Axiom #1:
"The Usenet is not the real world. The Usenet usually does not even resemble the real world."
Axiom #2:
"Ability to type on a computer terminal is no guarantee of sanity, intelligence, or common sense."
Corollary #3:
"An infinite number of monkeys at an infinite number of keyboards could produce something like Usenet."
Corollary #4: "They could do a better job of it."
Axiom #3:
"Sturgeon's Law (90% of everything is crap) applies to Usenet."
Corollary #5:
"In an unmoderated newsgroup, no one can agree on what constitutes the 10%."
Corollary #6:
"Nothing guarantees that the 10% isn't crap, too."
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I use Forte Agent to read:
alt.religion.kibology
alt.humor.best-of-usenet
alt.usage.english
alt.genealogy
soc.genealogy.methods
And also (with a lot of killfiles to eliminate the christers and nuts):
alt.archaeology
sci.archaeology
sci.archaeology.mesoamerican
sci.archaeology.moderated
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