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Subject: 
Re: .off-topic groups
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lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun
Date: 
Sat, 1 May 1999 10:05:23 GMT
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Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.1191017bd9e487dd9898c6@lugnet.com...
   Once upon a time under consideration
   ====================================
   lugnet.off-topic.arts
   lugnet.off-topic.books
   lugnet.off-topic.computers
   lugnet.off-topic.economics
   lugnet.off-topic.education
   lugnet.off-topic.food
   lugnet.off-topic.general
   lugnet.off-topic.hobbies
   lugnet.off-topic.home
   lugnet.off-topic.jobs
   lugnet.off-topic.movies+tv
   lugnet.off-topic.music
   lugnet.off-topic.news
   lugnet.off-topic.religion
   lugnet.off-topic.pets
   lugnet.off-topic.philosophy
   lugnet.off-topic.politics
   lugnet.off-topic.school
   lugnet.off-topic.science
   lugnet.off-topic.www

Quite the frighteningly large list, eh?!

You're missing a few, like .grammar, .jingoism, and .rant (with rant.random,
also known as the "dear lego" of off-topic posts).

Jesse

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  .off-topic groups
 
(...) If wonder if that doesn't set an uncomfortable precedent though. It would be confusing if .pun(s) went under .fun but .geek didn't. A lot of geeking is fun and a lot of puns aren't. So the cleanest thing (in my mind) would be either Forced (...) (25 years ago, 28-Apr-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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