Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/08/17

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Subject: Re: [Leica] alt.fan.brian_reid
From: Brian Reid <reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 08:10:16 -0700
References: <200108171327.JAA06230@hector.asc.upenn.edu>

> did you know there's an alt.fan.brian_reid? what a high honor!

It was created at a time when alt.fan groups were used to denigrate people, not praise them. I was the original creator of the alt.* mechanism, and I tried to steer it perhaps a little bit longer than I should have. You will note that there is also (on those few servers that carry such groups) an alt.sex.pederasts.brian_reid, created five years ago by a nut-case in Boulder, Colorado who thought that would annoy me.

In reply to: Message from kyle cassidy <cassidy@hector.asc.upenn.edu> ([Leica] alt.fan.brian_reid)