>> wobegon -- gone completely
>> [rec.music.folk takes a good part of the reason for this to exist.
>> if it had any volume (it doesn't) I'd suggest rec.radio or
>> rec.radio.npr]
One other quick note on net.wobegon. If you read my april fools postings and
note things like this in the Great Renaming, you might notice that I seemed
to go out of my way to pick on net.wobegon.
I did. The reason for this goes way back to the great Wobegon Wars, as I
call them. Early on I was of the opinion that we should not only be creating
groups, but that old/obsolete groups should be zapped as well. This goes
back to 1982 or early 1983. There was a long argument over this (some things
never change -- this is an issue the net never has come to grips with) with
the end result being about five groups that everyone more or less agreed
could go away -- and net.wobegon. The only group I remember as being deleted
was net.applic (applicative programming, whatever that is).
The net.wobegon people were vicious. Absolutely and totally nasty. It was a
group that was simply not being used. One of their arguments, which echoes
stuff you still hear today, was they didn't need to use the group, they just
wanted it to exist so they new they were important.
Man, no asbestos in the world could have saved me from this flamewar. I was
crisped, and to this day I still cringe when I think of it. I don't think
I've ever seen a flamefest quite that nasty -- and I've been part of many of
the worst.
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