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In article <jbachman.821158235@access4>,
L. Joseph Bachman <jbachman@access4.digex.net> 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 

So, you think that you know all of them?  Well then, it's time for you
to learn the latest ones. :-)

>Virginians hooked to the Internet to have a heirarchy of newsgroups.  

I think that I've heard of a few of them trying to attach tin cans and
paper cups to calculators and telephone lines, with string, trying to
make a connection the Internet.  Of course, this is still much more
logical than those who insist upon using those darned IBM type PCs
running MS-DOS or MS-Windows to connect to the Internet, as we all
truly know, in all honesty, that the 'net was intended to be accessed
by users on PDP-11s, VAXen and Suns, etc. running useful operating
systems like UNIX, RSX-11 and VAX/VMS.  The (Bill) Gates of Hell
doesn't control my computers!

>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?

I thought that someone tried to start such a hierarchy a while back -
if my memory serves me correctly, it was something like:

wva.food.roadkill
wva.higher-education.first-grade
wva.personals.first-cousins
wva.romance.siblings

Unfortunately, no one from W. Va. figured out how to post to any of
those newsgroups, and they eventually got rmgrouped. :-) :-) :-)

No offense intended; I've known some West Virginians who are very nice
people, and this posting was strongly influenced by their good-natured
jokes about themselves.  Personally, I think that it's much more fun
to tell jokes about the truly strange places like New York City and
Washington D.C... and Dundalk. :-)

>(Of course, I realize that there might be a heirarchy and Digex (my 
>provider) might not think that they're worth carrying.  However, given 
>some of the strange groups I can access, I can't see why they wouldn't 
>include a heirarchy for an area that abuts on their service area.)

It's probably because West Virginia fought on the wrong side (for
those in W. Va. who never learnt their history lessons, W. Va. fought
on the side of Big Brother, the North) during the Civil War, causing
us all to pay high taxes, and its residents are probably being
penalized for this. :-) :-) :-)

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