On Wed, 20 Mar 1996, M J Baldwin wrote:
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> Thanks for this and ALL the other explanations!! I love to learn
> something new every day, and certainly have today!!
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> Mark Baldwin
> University of Bath
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> On Mon, 18 Mar 1996, Nicholas Whyte wrote:
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> > 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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