SMALL TALK

... On Usenet / Newsgroup

A bit of tolerance is worth a megabyte of flaming.
      -- Henry Spencer

Go not to Usenet for answers, for they will say both yes and no and 'try another newsgroup'.
      -- Chris Croughton

He who flames improperly risks making an ash of himself.
      -- Jeff Klump

If extent of addiction can be judged by how long a dumb animal will sit repetitively pressing a bar in order to receive an occasional dose of instant gratification, I must conclude that Netnews is far more addictive than cocaine.
      -- Rob Stampfli

The flame war is a specific Usenet art form.
      -- G. Wolfe Woodbury

Unfortunately, it seems that the way usenet is set up, women are the zebras, and men are the lions, and the Internet is one big Serenghetti.
      -- Chris Zelek

Usenet is distributed network anarchy at its best ... or worst, depending on what is posted on any particular day.
      -- David Fiedler

Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expected it.
      -- Gene Spafford

Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
      -- Joshua Heller

Usenet isn't a right.  It's a right, a left, and a swift uppercut to the jaw.
      -- Anonymous

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