From: Dave Bird 
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In article, Stephen Moosehart  writes:
>Hello All,
>
>Since the FidoNet node which "The Three Mooseketeers" frequents is 
>closing down, with this message I am starting to "gate" the MooseChat 
>message area to the alt.moose.rights UseNet newsgroup.
>As mentioned in earlier messages, convincing ISP sysadmins to link up to 
>a new newsgroup named alt.moose.chat would have been difficult. 
>Meanwhile, I recently found that the practice of configuring alt.moose 
>as a place-holder (instead of as a useable message area) is more 
>widespread than I had thought.  So, taking the path of least resistance, 
>it seems best to go with the alt.moose.rights newsgroup.
>
>As with the alt.moose ng, alt.moose.rights has no regular participants 
>to be offended and our MooseChat messages will certainly be every bit as 
>appropriate as most of the recent alt.moose.rights messages on archive.

 There are probably still mooses around, but they're lurking.
 Seriously, it would be nice to have a bit of moose-related traffic 
 in here, as admins would only delete the group if it stayed empty.

 There is also alt.smoking.mooses to for relevant material, whether
 mooses which smoke or the smoking of mooses.  I once did a brief
 joint FAQ for them, but was too lazy to set up the autoposting.

 Does the "Elche.liste" (in German) still exist?
>
>Regarding my earlier concerns about UseNet reception of MooseChat 
>political satire.  After I recently read Moore's _Stupid White Men_ and 
>learned that his new book _Dude, Where's My Country?_ is also on the 
>best seller lists, I've realized that our humour has not been that "over 
>the top" after all.  If Moore can have his books published without 
>getting lynched, we should not have any problems in an obscure 
>newsgroup.
>
>By the way, since there were no objections, I still plan to
"gate" some 
>of the more recent MooseChat messages that do not depend on current 
>events for their humour.  (Aside from saving them for posterity, this 
>may help establish a moose-like atmosphere.)  So, we may see a few 
>replies coming back quoting "older" messages which have been re-dated 
>during the "gating" process.
>
>Onward and upward!  ;-)
>
>
>Yours in the Way of the Moose,

 Don't stand in the way of the mooses, they may stampede over you.
>
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