XPost: alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk, alt.cyberpunk, alt.f   
   n.karl-malden.nose   
   XPost: alt.flame, alt.memetics, alt.religion.kibology   
   XPost: alt.society.neutopia, alt.usenet.kooks, alt.webtrance   
   From: nospamschwann@webtrance.co.!za   
      
   Ari,   
      
   Good post. Yes, the interconnecting thing, known by the barbarians as   
   'x-posting', 'velveeta' etc., hasn't always been acceptable. Let us not   
   forget those who fell in the uphill battle to get this 'out-reach' meme   
   initialised on usenet. You know who you are.   
      
   schwann   
      
      
      
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   My impression is that, if anything, turnover in regular posters and   
   cultural exchange with previously unknown newsgroups has become more   
   widespread in recent years. In old days the AFK-MN folks shared their   
   exploits with the Flonk, but that was pretty much it. Flonk regulars,   
   on their own, rarely took a proactive stance in exploring uncharted   
   newsgroups. Nowadays we have newbies arriving from a wide variety of   
   places and regulars often post in other social newsgroups, too.   
      
   I think the idea that the Flonk of yore was a dynamic troll central   
   bustling with rambunctious crossposters always eager to help a troller   
   in need is wrong. I don't know why some people see the Flonk that way,   
   because to me it's an idealised version of what the Nose - not the   
   Flonk - used to be.   
      
   --   
    Ari    
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)