On 5 Sep 2007 22:42:46 GMT, "Dr Ivan D. Reid" brunel.ac.uk> wrote:

I am asking a serious question. When will those posts go
away?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

It's annoying me as they are hindering my ability to see my REAL
posts.

I feel like infecting hip-crime with trojan horse that will steal all
their info -- including credit card numbers -- and give it to the rest
of the world. I want to burn hip-crime with oxyacetylene flames and
cause them grave-suffering. I want to burn the skins of whoever runs
hipcrime. I want to turn their skins into white foam by thermally-
denaturing their skins with oxyacetylene flames. I hope someone --
with less control over their anger than me -- sets hipcrime's
personnel on fire and gives them a slow, painful, yet sure way out of
existence.

REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD)
remove comp.infosystems.announce

This is a formal Request For Discussion (RFD) to remove the
newsgroup comp.infosystems.announce.

RATIONALE: remove comp.infosystems.announce

The last approved message was in January 1995. See History for details.

This group may be a candidate for revival with a new moderator. If there is a
new moderator, the group should avoid announcements about the WWW, and
concentrate on lesser known services such as Gopher, FTP, WAIS, and NNTP. That
the group and its moderator were swamped by WWW site anouncements may have led
to its demise.

HISTORY:

The newsgroup comp.infosystems.announce was created in January 1994. It was
originally proposed as comp.infosystems.gopher.announce, but was changed to a
more general scope as a result of discussion.

In practice, a large portion of its content of roughly 50 to 100 articles per
month were announcements of various websites.