Thanks for this and ALL the other explanations!! I love to learn
something new every day, and certainly have today!!
Mark Baldwin
University of Bath
On Mon, 18 Mar 1996, Nicholas Whyte wrote:
> At 6:08 pm 18/3/96, M J Baldwin wrote:
> >I don't understand this mailing - received from more than one source. I
> >have never heard of "votes" for people to set up home pages - most people
> >just do it don't they? Am I right to be suspicious? The other version of
> >this came from a totally different source and was slightly different. It
> >would be a very clever Nazi wheeze to get anti-nazi Email addresses
> >wouldn't it? I have had some of this stuff before when subscribing to a
> >different discussion line - I would not want it all again - it totally
> >screws up your Email - millions of infantile messages.
>
> The message is about the creation of a newsgroup - a discussion list which
> is open to anyone with the right software and connections rather than via
> an e-mail subscription. The voting procedure is completely normal for
> creating this kind of forum, and having checked on the relevant newsgroup
> (which is logically enough called "news.groups") I can confirm that the
> vote is genuine. The striking thing about the vote is that, rather than
> being posted to groups which deal with music, as one might have expected,
> it has only been posted to such groups as "alt.skinheads",
> "alt.politics.white-power" and "alt.politics.nationalism.white".
>
> The subject is definitely off-topic for this list, but I myself wouldn't
> have found out about it any other way, not being a regular reader of
> news.groups, let alone any of the alt.nazi groups. In any case I don't know
> what neo-Nazis would really want with a list of email addresses of their
> opponents!
>
> However, by the time you've finished reading this it's probably too late
> anyway - the vote finishes this evening (Monday 18th March) at midnight
> GMT.
>
> Nicholas Whyte
>
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