From: edward@genghis0.demon.co.uk   
      
    >>In message <47a562bb$1_2@mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com>, Col   
    >> writes   
    >>>>   
    >>>> In it's best days it just seemed to be full of kids arguing about   
    >>>> signature lengths and what was or wasn't on topic. For a fun series   
   it >>>> seemed to have a hell hole of a news group.   
    >>>   
    >>>A *hell* hole?   
    >>   
    >>I think "festering swamp of fear and loathing" was the exact title :-)   
    >>   
    >>There was life there Jim, but not as we know it.   
    >   
    >   
    >I think you are missing the joke here.  See, Col and I come from   
    >ATVRD, where that line is pretty much standard :)   
      
      
   Ahh I begin to see. So all this talk of a new NG is really a huge PR   
   exercise to give public awareness to the old NG :-)   
      
   You should be in politics.   
      
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