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Subject:Re: Book Recommendation
Date:Mon, 01 Sep 2003 20:10:23 GMT
From:<viv.eshwar@verizon.net>
Newsgroups:alt.astrology, alt.jyotish,alt.usenet.kooks, alt.astrology.metapsych,sci.skeptic
Patrick Humphrey wrote:

> Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they ARE out to get you, either.
> 
> <viv.eshwar@verizon.net> writes:
> 
> [...]
> 
> >This guy, Dutch, has an agenda.  He's very cool about it, but what he's after
> >is evidence of "kookery".  It turns out that alt.kooks.net has a strategy of
> >luring people to post to that group so they can be "evaluated", by dicking
> >around with the followup option on their messages.
> 
> Nice fantasy -- so where is this "alt.kooks.net"?  Giganews have never heard
> of it.  I guess when reality doesn't do as you command, the next step is to
> make things up.  

Try alt.usenet.kooks.  Try actually reading the faq, which actually
exists on news.admin.net-abuse.usenet.  It has undoubtedly been purged,
or submerged in meaningless blather, on alt.usenet.kooks. 

If all that doesn't work for you, try getting a life.

As above, so below
viveshwar