From: Dave Bird 
Newsgroups: alt.moose.rights,alt.smoking.mooses
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@NNTP-Posting-Host: xemu.demon.co.uk
@NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 22:51:17 +0000 (UTC)


 ALT.MOOSE.RIGHTS: Once upon a time in alt.animal.rights there was a bunch of
moose poets, who insisted on writing execrable verse mostly
 about mooses.  "Why don't you take your moose poems and stick them,"
 said everyone else, "on a newsgroup of your own."  Thus was founded
 alt.moose.tights .  The moose poets have dispersed to the far forests
 of the world, but their newsgroup still remains on many news-servers.

 ALT.SMOKING.MOOSES:  Quite simply there was a group of Scandinavian
 people who wanted a smokers rights newsgroup.  There wasn't, then,
 an appropriate hierarchy to put it in, so... "alt.smoking.mooses."
 Whether this newsgroup is now about mooses that smoke, or the
 smoking of mooses, is entirely up to its readership I suppose.  


 MOOSECHAT from FIDONET.   We also seem to have acquired some new
 Canadian mooses who have lost their own place on FidoNet.

In article, Stephen Moosehart  writes:
>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.

 This is the description of their "MooseChat" echo.

 MOOSECHAT

     Moose and Hoser "Canadian Humor" Chat

           MooseChat is an echo for anyone who wants to attempt witty, 
          humorous, or just plain silly messages. Many distinguished 
          moose, Hosers from the Great White North, and even famous 
          Performance Artists like Saddam Hussein and George Bush 
          have all frequented MooseChat at one time or another. A 
          moose- like angle, alias, or shtick is appreciated but not 
          necessary. Moose sometimes stray into serious topics and 
          political satire is often seen, but those attempting serious 
          discussion may need to survive receiving silly replies.
          The MooseChat "echo theme" is to disseminate knowledge about 
          the noble moose, to discuss attributes of moose we have 
          known and admired, and to enter messages which are a bit 
          more silly or offbeat than one finds in most other echoes.
          Status: Active 

     Origin:                                         Group:
     Distribution: Fidonet Backbone, alt.moose.rights UseNet newsgroup 
     Gateways:
     Language:
     # Nodes: N/A          Volume: 13/mo        Rules: MOOSE.RUL
     Flags: [Has Rules]
     Notes:
     Moderators:   Stephen Hart, 1:249/127
                   Steve Hart, hart{at}io.nospam.com
                   (for e-mail messages: remove nospam.)




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