🚀 go-pugleaf

[POSTED TO ba.internet - REPLY ON USENET PLEASE]

In <slrnbffk8a.12p9.the@wopr.bestII.com> on Tue, 24 Jun 2003 04:18:18 -0000,
Sam Habash <usenet@bestII.com> wrote:

>This is a formal proposal marked to the attention of those that maintain
>the ba.* hierarchy.
>
>It seems that many of the recent discussions that have appeared in ba.internet 
>hae been mostly off-charter, at least with respect to the original newgroup.  
>Rather than covering Internet-specific topics pertaining to the Bay Area, we 
>have seen discussions cover the gamut between spam abatement, wireless phone 
>connectivity, and whether Microsoft was somewhat evil or totally evil.  Only 
>occasionally have these topics veered towards Bay Area specific examples.  One 
>worthy counter argument made in the earlier round of discussion was that the 
>ba.* hierarchy covers a broad range of subjects that the SF Bay Area residents
>who frequent these groups can participate in, but in my mind there is really no 
>good argument for excluding non-residents from participating.
>
>Thus, I feel that ba.internet should be discontinued,

You should know that there's no accepted way to do that.

>and the subject matter spun
>off into a new "ba.technology" subhierarchy:
>
>ba.technology.misc	Discussions about Bay Area technology-related issues.
>ba.technology.internet	Discussions about Bay Area Internet connectivity.
>ba.technology.wireless	Discussions about wireless connectivty around the Bay Area.

Heaven help us.

This is a joke, right?  You can't be serious.

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