Re: alt.ascii-art wins SPY magazine award!
From Christopher Beattie <chr...@central.keywest.mpgn.com>
· alt.ascii-art
· 18 Jul 1994 17:49 · View full thread
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In article <304dbr$gf...@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu> (J. Durr) writes: >In article <3011og$2i...@sbctri.sbc.com>, Alan Asper <aas...@sbctri.sbc.com> >wrote: > >> Congratulations! This newsgroup, along with alt.sex.bestiality >> and alt.tv.twin-peaks (among others) was determined to be one of >> the stupidest newsgroups by the recently revived SPY magazine. >They're right, you know. This group sucks anymore. All it is is >a bunch of whiners asking for "help on my sig!" Sheesh. >On the other hand, SPY is from New York. I would tend to mildly disagree. While the signal noise ratio of this (and any alt group) is rather high, there are the occasional gem that crops up once a week or so which makes it worthwhile. I mean this group has surely got to be better than alt.cobol! . . ..... . .... .... . . . .... ..... "Dots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . all ..... . . ..... ... . . . ..... .... . ya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . need . . ..... . . . .... .... . . . . . . . to know!" | --- --/ /-\ /-\ | Christopher Beattie | Disclamer: | | | / | | | / | Tantalus @ Key West | My opinions are mine. | | | /-- \-/ | \ | chr...@central.keywest.mpgn.com |
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,858ed563603293d,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-07-19 11:23:26 PST Path: nntp.gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!nic-nac.CSU.net!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!olivea!uunet!psinntp!Central.KeyWest.MPGN.COM!coldiron.keywest.mpgn.com!chrisb From: chr...@central.keywest.mpgn.com (Christopher Beattie) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: alt.ascii-art wins SPY magazine award! Date: Mon, 18 Jul 1994 17:49:46 Organization: Tantalus Inc. Lines: 32 Distribution: world Message-ID: <chr...@central.keywest.mpgn.com> References: <3011og$2i...@sbctri.sbc.com> <304dbr$gf...@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: coldiron.keywest.mpgn.com X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev A]
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