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Re: West Virginia Newsgroup Heirarchy?

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From: Bruce Harper
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 1996 00:00
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In article <jbachman.821158235@access4>, jbachman@access4.digex.net (L.
Joseph Bachman) wrote:

>I know all the jokes about West Virgina (I've heard 'em mostly from 
>friends who came from there), but surely there must be enough West 
>Virginians hooked to the Internet to have a heirarchy of newsgroups.  
>However, my attempts to search for usegroups using name freagments of 
>'wv', or 'wva' have come up empty. 
>
>Is there a heirarchy of West Virginia newgroups?

Well, I don't think things have gotten to the point were a wva.* grouping
has been created.  In the meantime, check out alt.appalachian as a decent
newsgroup, which covers all of the Appalachian region from north to
south, but has a heavy preponderance of West Virginians both from the
Mountain State and from points afar.

Bruce in Blacksburg

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From: bharper@vt.edu (Bruce Harper)
Subject: Re: West Virginia Newsgroup Heirarchy?
Date: 1996/01/09
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