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...attempt to combat its reputation for inaccessibility, the Undergraduate Council has established a newsgroup on Harvard's computer network where students can make themselves heard--or rather seen...
...Like a newsgroup or bulletin board, people post messages to The List--it's nothing fancy, just a never-ending reply-to-all e-mail message--and others respond, rebuke or what have...
...face-to-face consultations. If you wanted to fit into a smaller bikini and couldn't co-opt your GP into saying you were obese enough for the drug--well, you knew where to look. "Where can I get Xenical online without a prescription?" asked a correspondent in the newsgroup alt.drugs. A reply came from Pharmcom.com another offshore operation, this time in New Zealand. Like a good spouse, the online doctors don't call you on your weight claims. A height-to-weight ratio in the obese range is good enough for them...
Further searching of the Internet reveals a newsgroup, alt.memetics, which has received about 12,000 postings during the past year. There are online articles titled, to name a couple, "Memes, Metamemes and Politics" and "Memes, and Grinning Idiot Press." There are separate websites on "Meme Theorists on the Web" and the "Meme Gardening Page." There is even a new religion (tongue in cheek, I hope) called the "Church of Virus," complete with its own list of Sins and Virtues and its own patron saint (St. Charles Darwin). I was alarmed to discover a passing reference to "St. Dawkin...
...nothing more than a list of passwords for porn sites. But within hours, alarm bells began to ring. An automatic virus detector spotted Melissa, noting that she entered via e-mail from skyroket@aol.com The FBI enlisted America Online techies and scrambled their cybersabotage squads. Meanwhile, patrons of alt.comp.virus a newsgroup where virus writers and hunters hang out, morphed into virtual Baker Street irregulars...