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...site will be similar to the newsgroup "harvard.marketplace," where students can post for-sale notices, but the Web site has the advantage of better organization and ease of access...
...world's largest online service also "supported" a large online anti-AOL club, especially out on the unvarnished stretches of the Net, where folks tend to be anti-censorship and anti-corporate. Cassell discovered them in a fledgling Usenet newsgroup called alt.aol-sucks that he turned into a personal crusade. His gang of malcontents anticipates the demise of the online-service provider as avidly as Rastafarians await the return of King Haile Selassie I. And slowly his anti-AOL avocation has blossomed into a career; Cassell, 34, now supports himself and his cat Tribble almost exclusively by writing about...
...faithful's reaction to the Gates-Jobs duet was pretty much what anyone conversant with the Apple cult would have expected. "Mass suicide planned tonight in Silicon Valley," read a typical posting to the newsgroup alt.destroy.microsoft. And the MacWorld crowd booed Gates' image even more than Jobs' turncoat words. But there were cheers too. "Everybody was booing Microsoft," says attendee Mark Lilback, 24, "and then they were like, 'Oh, Bill Gates is listening to this,' and they started to applaud." Who could blame them? They knew the truth: they were a conquered kingdom's starving partisans. Booing Gates meant biting...
...aggressively conservative filtering program, is infamous for blocking access to the National Organization for Women's Website as well as entire Internet providers like Echo, New York City's oldest online community. Gay-themed sites--big surprise--suffer mightily. CyberPatrol blocks the Queer Resources Directory; CyberSitter bans the alt.politics.homosexual newsgroup; SurfWatch blocks ClariNet's AP and Reuters articles about AIDS...
Before Courage proposed to St. Pierre in February, he had solicited a newsgroup for creative proposals. One person suggested he surprise her in the shower with the ring, accompanied by the music from "Psycho." Another suggested suspending the ring from the ceiling so she would see it when she woke up. In the end, though, he went with an idea suggested by his fiance's housemate...