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Re: defining proper content
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lugnet.admin.general
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Tue, 15 Aug 2000 22:45:07 GMT
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If you used to watch a certain morning channel until some time ago, Agro was
the co-host and puppet on a TV show which ran cartoons with this puppet and
his sidekick/volunteer from the audience joining in. Somewhat wild in
places, goofy in others, they eventually stopped showing it.
Good show, *if* you were a kid. Otherwise, time for that mute button on the
remote! ;-)
Cheers ...
Geoffrey Hyde
Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message
news:FzCqIB.Auw@lugnet.com...
> In lugnet.admin.general, Scott Arthur writes:
> > In lugnet.admin.general, Matthew Miller writes:
> > > Compared to Usenet, it's a pretty friendly place, actually. I'm not saying
> > > that it couldn't be better, of course.
> >
> > Other than RTL, all the other newsgroups I read are work related, but they
> > are all fine. LUGNET is the only one with agro I read. Although, I did used
> > to be on a Ian Banks mailing list thing, and that was pretty bad.
>
> What is "agro"?
>
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> > I often wonder if LUGNET was always like this and I have just noticed it,
> > or if it is a recent change??
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> FWIW, I haven't noticed any recent changes -- other than the usual flare-ups
> of debates that happen from time to time. Sometimes they seem like changes
> because they take things by storm, but they've been here since day 1 (or maybe
> day 10) -- and some much worse (noticable) than this most recent one. The
> biggest noticable thing here perhaps is that it is taking place in a themed
> newsgroup (.starwars), which IIRC hasn't happened since the debate in
> .adventurers about a year ago.
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> When it moves to .off-topic.debate, all will seem normal again, as the .debate
> area is set up as a sort of "loud quiet-corner" where people can let off steam
> and work through things. The .off-topic.debate area exists so that people can
> say "hey, take this over to .off-topic.debate" without having to ask someone
> to stop discussing something altogther (which, due to human nature, rarely
> works anyway and usually just makes matters worse).
>
> --Todd
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| (...) What is "agro"? (...) FWIW, I haven't noticed any recent changes -- other than the usual flare-ups of debates that happen from time to time. Sometimes they seem like changes because they take things by storm, but they've been here since day 1 (...) (24 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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