In the beginning

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From: utzoodecvaxharpoeaglemhtsaalicer...
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 1983 02:58

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Once more...
net.suicide was cooked up one night at a dinner party,
in the early days when netnews was exploding but not yet
quite a self-parody.
It's based on the following classified ad in Monty Python's
Big Red Book:

NEW MEMBERS urgently required
for Suicide Club, Watford area.

Once every six months, somebody stands up and says it all
started with motorcycle helmets.  Wrong.

(The original message is lost to history, but it went something like:

When I was in school, we had a suicide club but the membership
kept dropping off.  Anyone out there interested in starting
a suicide club on the net?
)

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From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhtsa!alice!research!rob
Newsgroups: net.suicide
Title: In the beginning
Article-I.D.: research.340
Posted: Thu Mar 24 02:58:02 1983
Received: Fri Mar 25 07:44:27 1983
Subject: In the beginning
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 1983 02:58:02 +0000
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