From: fache@SPAMclara.net   
      
   On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 14:21:51 +0000, Edward Cowling London UK   
    wrote:   
      
   > >>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.   
      
      
   I think we've just encountered the middle of this discussion   
      
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