From: Lee Jackson Beauregard Newsgroups: news.admin.net-abuse.usenet,alt.fan.karl-malden.nose,alt.flame Subject: Re: Re: FAQ: Net Abuse Jargon File Date: 17 September 1998
Newsgroups deboursyed.
taxes@yourwallet.empty.gov (IRS Agent) wrote:
>In news.admin.meow, the2belo@dont-UDP.alt.net (The 2-Belo, VOTM) exclaimed: > >)alt.bigfoot was a base of Meower operations?? > >Nope. > >)I think not. alt.bigfoot was a newsgroup that was in a flamefest with alt.flame, >)not the 'Nose, and in fact began before Meow even existed, IIRC. > >It ended before the MEOW existed.
Aside from newsgroup invasions, alt.bigfoot had little in common with the meowers. alt.bigfoot was mainly a bunch of guys posting bad poetry about Bigfoot and "mooses" (sic). Their doggerel often portrayed cats meeting a horrible end (said to be a result of a dust-up with rec.pets.cats). They disliked cascades; indeed in the pre-meow days one of the primary purposes of cascades was to irritate the 'footers.
To sum up a few points of comparison between meowers and footers:
Footers Meowers
------- -------
cats: hated them duh....
cascades: disliked them participate in them
alt.flame: hostile honored participants
The one bit of evidence for a meower-footer connection is that the meowers got started about the time alt.bigfoot broke up. However, the preponderance of evidence is against such a connection.
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