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In article <34968D01.30A6@marketing-wizards.com>,
wordwork@marketing-wizards.com wrote:

> Every so often someone steps back from the verbal brawling that
> characterizes these news groups and calls for sanity and reason.  
> That anguished cry always goes unheeded.  

I find that bc.general is generally useless for anything other than
bickering (though there are a couple of very witty posters here who
brighten things considerably). Some other newsgroups I read and post
to, however, are often wonderful. In one group there's an interesting
debate on authorial intent, and a fine discussion of film analysis; in
another there are threads about everything from linguistics to pop
music to cuisine.

It's just a matter of knowing where to look, and what to expect. But
it's so much harder, now that Usenet is so huge -- I did a lot of 
wading through dreck to find one of those groups, and that was about 
six years ago.

Hey -- here's a question for everyone. On what Usenet group did you 
make your posting debut, and when?

-- 
Stephanie Smith -- reply to doa at bc dot sympatico dot ca