Mark Gendron wrote:
>
> > From: Mark J Bradakis
> > Sent: Monday, March 06, 2000 3:52 PM
> > Subject: Re: Triumphs USENET Newsgroup?
> >
> > This discussion has been one of the perennial topics over the last decade
> > or so. If you prefer a newsgroup, read rec.autos.makers.triumph instead.
> > Of course, you'd be surprised at how many uninformed folks are out there
> that
> > think this mailing list is a newsgroup!
>
> Does rec.autos.makers.triumph exist, or are you joking? I have checked
> periodically for such a newsgroup, and found none. If I had found such
> a newsgroup, then I certainly would not have proposed that we start
> another one.
I think this might explain the problem--I found this doing a search of
deja.com archives. Most of the messages to rec.autos.makers.triumph were
this message, repeated over and over again:
"The recent newgroup for this group in my name was a forgery.
rec.autos.makers.triumph is widely considered a bogus newsgroup
given
that it has not been approved by accepted USENET group creation
procedures. Please remove the group from your active file."
As I mentioned earlier, someone did say they were going to start a
group, but apparently they did not know how to go about doing it. Of the
sample I searched (trying to get as many citations as possible by
searching for the keyword "my,") a great many of them were repeats of
the above message from a David C. Lawrence.
If there was such a group, it was not _bona fide_ and is probably
defunct.
Cheers.
--
Michael D. Porter
Roswell, NM
mailto: mporter@zianet.com
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