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adbarr
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response 25 of 470:
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Feb 17 00:46 UTC 1996 |
Or the "Flood" of '69".
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steve
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response 26 of 470:
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Feb 17 06:21 UTC 1996 |
The Skunkworks was one of the places in the strip, but I forget
where. The Skunkworks that you think of Greg, was named that in
honor of the comic strip.
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adbarr
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response 27 of 470:
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Feb 17 11:10 UTC 1996 |
Lockheed. Area 51, Groom Lake? Comic strip? ?
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scott
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response 28 of 470:
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Feb 17 18:23 UTC 1996 |
OK, the garage conference has been created, with janc as the Fairwitness.
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davel
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response 29 of 470:
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Feb 18 23:10 UTC 1996 |
(Yes, I think that the Skonkworks (note vowel) was Dogpatch's only apparent
industry.)
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popcorn
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response 30 of 470:
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Mar 21 15:14 UTC 1996 |
I'm contemplating proposing creating another sexuality conference, maybe
called something like "altsex". Dunno yet who would fair witness it.
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srw
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response 31 of 470:
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Mar 21 17:47 UTC 1996 |
That sounds like a usenet hierarchy.
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remmers
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response 32 of 470:
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Mar 21 21:07 UTC 1996 |
If you know German, it also sounds like a conference on sex for
senior citizens.
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anne
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response 33 of 470:
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Mar 21 21:25 UTC 1996 |
What would the purpose of altsex be?
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brighn
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response 34 of 470:
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Mar 21 22:50 UTC 1996 |
Hey, how about sex for BDSM, polyamory, and queers? =}
*giggles*
I'll be FW... wouldn't that be a rip?
I'd be FW for competing conferences. And I'm just split-personality
to do it... I could have politic fights with myself and just leave
everyone else alone.
*rotfl*
(Disclaimer for the humor-impaired: This entire post is a joke.)
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rcurl
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response 35 of 470:
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Mar 21 23:15 UTC 1996 |
No one person should be fw of more than one sex conference. We don't want
any of this bi- or tri-sexuality here. :)
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popcorn
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response 36 of 470:
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Mar 22 07:29 UTC 1996 |
Re 31: Yup, I was thinking of usenet when I came up with the name.
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brighn
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response 37 of 470:
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Mar 22 13:42 UTC 1996 |
For the record, Selena made an executive decision last night.
Human Sexuality is dying. All of its items have been linked to
After Dark, whose name has been changed to
Sexuality II
I had nothing to do with the decision, but I approve of it. The
split-conf experiment failed. Flirting without serious discussion
goes about as far as serious discussion without flirting.... it lasts
six months, then collapses. The Eastern Zen folk would say we've
learned smething about the importanceof balance, and I'd concur.
The current FWs are Hross, Selena, and myself
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brighn
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response 38 of 470:
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Mar 22 13:46 UTC 1996 |
(it also means that, if anybody *is* interested in an alternative
sexuality conference, Human Sexuality is currently devoid of items)
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scg
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response 39 of 470:
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Mar 22 14:01 UTC 1996 |
Ugh. The whole point of that split was that people were tired of having the
serious discussion interupted by all the flirting. I guess this wouldn't be
the first time a fairwittness has gone crazy and destroyed a conference, but
I really wish, if she wasn't interested in the conference anymore, that she
could have just resigned as fairwittness and let somebody else take over.
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brighn
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response 40 of 470:
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Mar 22 14:19 UTC 1996 |
The seriosu discussion had all died... the two major fights in After
Dark have been caused by users posting in After Dark because they had
serious things to say and because nobody was talking in HSex.
The decision makes sense, all the items still exist (in After Dark,
but they're there), and of course if anybody wants to recreate HSex,
the conference still exists... link the items over. *shrug*
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kerouac
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response 41 of 470:
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Mar 22 21:53 UTC 1996 |
I think the experiment did fail. Nobody was reading human sexuality
because the pointer for "sex" led everyone to AD. Those who found the
conversation too light in AD didnt go to human sexuality, they just
left. This is a good example of why there are limits to how succesful
redundant confs can be. The more you splinter topics and confs, the weaker
they become. Grex will be much stronger with fewer stronger confs than with
many more weak ones.
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selena
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response 42 of 470:
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Mar 23 04:44 UTC 1996 |
Steve- not like you ever entered a new item in Human Sexuality. And I
strongly resent the "going crazy" statemet- I made the decision after
weeks of serious thought about what to do.
Don't pretend you're going to miss Human Sexuality. You never
really bothered with it while it was there, for months, rotting from
disuse. And, let me make it clear- None of the old items are destroyed.
They are now to be found in Sexuality II: The Resurrection.
The seriousness could not live without the fun, and the fun
was *yearning* for the serious. What better way, than to recombine
the two severed halves into a proper whole?
Popcorn- If you want an altsex conference still, please, by all
means, do so.
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carson
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response 43 of 470:
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Mar 23 05:55 UTC 1996 |
Selena and I agree. how about that?
well, up to a point...
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brighn
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response 44 of 470:
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Mar 23 08:40 UTC 1996 |
Shush, you, ... you were thhe one whose fight with me spurned the
schism in the first place, and then *you* promptly disappeared.
Well, kids, *I* learned a lesson... *sings "Garden PArty"*
"YOu can't please everyone, so you gotta please yourself"
*hopes he doesn't die in a plane wreck now*
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scott
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response 45 of 470:
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Mar 23 12:16 UTC 1996 |
Well, the old Sexuality conf. is being put on ice for now. I'm not going to
throw it away, just hide it. Too bad all the original items are now gone;
they were interesting and mostly serious.
(original before FW changes...)
(scott is cfadm , for those who didn't know)
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carson
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response 46 of 470:
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Mar 23 17:46 UTC 1996 |
re #44: I'd left long before that. It takes two to fight.
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srw
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response 47 of 470:
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Mar 23 22:15 UTC 1996 |
If anyone were interested in a human sexuality conference in which flirting
would not be welcome, I think this would be a good time to come to come
forward and claim it.
If desired, It would be reasonable, IMO, for the FW of such a conf to
disparage flirting posts in that conf, since another place for such posts
exists. This might be a very interesting conference for mature discussions.
People who aren't interested in flirting might join such a conference.
Conference names and aliases can be adjusted to suit the needs, I would
imagine. If we made some mistakes, this is a time to learn from them.
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kerouac
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response 48 of 470:
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Mar 23 22:27 UTC 1996 |
I guess such a conf as srw suggests could be a precursor to what
might eventually need to be a closed conf to discuss mature subject
matter under potential CDA compliance. Given that, I think it shouldnt
be limited to sexuality. Call it like the "Mature Audiences Only" or
"Adult" conf and throw it open to a wide range of topics.
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srw
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response 49 of 470:
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Mar 24 01:27 UTC 1996 |
Whoever wanted to FW it could decide whether they wanted a broader or a more
limited charter. The advantage of a broader one is that it is easier to
achieve critical mass to get get good discussions going.
I think there are too many conferences on Grex dying because of insufficient
participation, so I would think that broader is better. Even if it were to
become a very busy conf (unlikely, I think) picospan offers good tools for
individuals to limit the topic by forgetting articles they're not interested
in.
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