From emhavens@MIT.EDU Sun Sep 29 15:57:41 1996 Received: from MIT.EDU (PACIFIC-CARRIER-ANNEX.MIT.EDU [18.69.0.28]) by bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU (8.6.13/2.3JIK) with SMTP id PAA27538; Sun, 29 Sep 1996 15:57:40 -0400 From: emhavens@MIT.EDU Received: from OPUS.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA21133; Sun, 29 Sep 96 15:57:19 EDT Received: by opus.MIT.EDU (940816.SGI.8.6.9/4.7) id PAA19207; Sun, 29 Sep 1996 15:57:18 -0400 Message-Id: <199609291957.PAA19207@opus.MIT.EDU> To: news-answers-request@MIT.EDU Subject: "Steven Snedker": Re: Welcome to alt.tasteless! (Monthly Posting) Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 15:57:18 EDT ------- Forwarded Message Received: from PACIFIC-CARRIER-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po9.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA23560; Sun, 29 Sep 96 15:47:14 EDT Received: from inet.uni-c.dk by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA20203; Sun, 29 Sep 96 15:47:11 EDT Received: from CLINTEAS (lgb113.ppp.uni-c.dk [130.228.6.113]) by inet.uni-c.dk (8.7.6/8.6.9) with SMTP id UAA06082 for ; Sun, 29 Sep 1996 20:47:07 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <199609291947.UAA06082@inet.uni-c.dk> Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Steven Snedker" Organization: Snedkers Paratviden To: emhavens@MIT.EDU Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 20:46:44 +0000 Subject: Re: Welcome to alt.tasteless! (Monthly Posting) Reply-To: snedker@inet.uni-c.dk Priority: normal X-Mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.33) Dear Emily, _Welcome to alt.tasteless! (Monthly Posting)?_ is still very much an active posting being posted once a month. Trouble is it does not seem to propagate properly. A trouble with a lot of my postings from my diku.dk account. When posted I look for it on DejaNews, but during the last months it hasn't showed up. I don't know why. It doesn't seem to leave the site. Therefore I'm negotiatiing with some other newsgroup members to take it over. Unfortunately they fear the colourful posting will get them into trouble. So until a good replacement for me has been found I'll still try to post it as case@diku.dk (St. Ool). Matter of fact, I'll do it now, and see what happens. I don't think I've tried posting it since july. > Emily Havens > one of the *.answers moderators Anyway, thanks a lot for doing the *.answers job. Usenet is still worth a lot. It just takes more caretakers to make it run smoothly. Speaking of which, I'd like to ask you a couple of questions, if it's all right. When I'm not studying at the university, I'm writing an Internet column in a danish computer mag. Next month will be on the various conflicts on the net (scientology, smith barney, spam) etc. So, How long have you been on the net, and what have you been doing there? When did you start helping things out by working to add order to the net? I've noticed that the "-"#%!" spammers (or alt.syntax.tacticals) are now so bold they make fake FAQs. The headers will be below. What do you think about that? If a more or less offensive FAQ like _Welcome to alt.tasteless_ can exist in news.answers, why shouldn't fake on-man "FAQs" be allowed to do it? And who should make the decision? What do you think about FAQs serving as encyclopedias (namely the dog, ufo and fat FAQs) instead of informational postings helping people to get a better use of a certain group and pointing them onward to more information (on the www, for instance)? You don't have to answer, but I'd be grateful if you do. I'd better get posting. yours, Steven - -- Din ven Steven Snedker | Redaktoer paa Alt om DATA http://inet.uni-c.dk/~snedker | http://www.aod.dk ------- End of Forwarded Message