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Reasons I like Usenet

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1. The junky funny anarchic happy wacko groups out there
2. The massive variety of groups
3. The anonymity
4. The flames.

The spam problem is huge so setting up filters takes time but finding good groups is well worth it.

A couple of them:
free.uk.mad.alien.sheep.on.drugs.discussing.politics
alt.sex.wizards
free.munch.onions
free.clinton.and.assholes.who.like.to.trash.him
free.fuckwit.scrappy
alt.www.stupid-idiots.com
alt.music.cake
alt.binaries.pictures.drinks.coffee
alt.crafts.candlemaking.soapmaking.moderated
free.radish.therapy
cheese-house.english-jokes
alt.music.string.cheese.incident
alt.politics and the message here – one of 3 million headers on the new server – was x-posted to alt.machines.cnc, misc.survivalism, rec.crafts.metalworking, alt.aol.tricks, alt.autos.toyota,talk.politics.guns, alt.politics.libertarian

I don’t subscribe to any of those and those I do are far too busy to read everything but Usenet is a wonderful place, somewhere that hopefully never goes away. I’ll have to create a group, can’t be tricky. I’ll have it as an online ambition.

Poor Mr Cutillo

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“It’s all been blown up out of proportion. We’ve been victimised by this, penalised when we have no blame.” … “What we need now,” says Mr Cutillo, as we say goodbye to his buffaloes, “is for the politicians to make a stand and the institutions to come out and make it clear that the problem has been dealt with. Because there have been so many conflicting reports that people don’t know what to believe. Then it needs to disappear from the newspapers and the TV. Because if it carries on like this it will be a disaster.” Independent

In 1996 Italy banned British Beef. It was not until 2006 that Italy lifted that ban. So Mr Cutillo will have to excuse people like me who don’t give a damn about him and his poisonous cheese. If you will not give one country the benefit of the doubt then why in hell should we care even one bit about your over-priced chunks of dioxin?