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...this and more are regular occurences on Usenet newsgroups, and most of you are probably missing out. In fact, most of you don't know what on Earth I'm talking about...
...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...
...spit in disgust. The American people should be so lucky that they worry about universal access to something called the Internet. This was coming from an administration that had failed to feed its poor or house its veterans. The prospect of the Web in West Virginia and the Usenet in Utah seemed like the classic tactic of bread and circus, only without enough bread to go around...
...beliefs. Thus on the Internet, Catholics suddenly find themselves keyboard-to-keyboard with devil worshippers, Jews modem-to-modem with Islamic fundamentalists. "I put the [Reverend Moon's] Unification Church right up there with the wonderful world of Mormon," someone with the screen name Marzioli posted recently on a Usenet newsgroup. The next message snapped back, "Marz, you are an ignorant disinformationist. Wake...
Newsgroups like alt.fan.jesus-christ and alt.religion.scientology are among the busiest--and most contentious--of the nearly 20,000 discussion groups carried on Usenet. America Online and CompuServe, the two largest commercial online services, are each home to hundreds of electronic bulletin boards that offer everything from Confucian primers to Q. and A.s about Jewish dietary laws. (One urgent aol query: Is it O.K. to have a pot-bellied pig as a pet if you keep a kosher kitchen? Answer: Probably. As long as you don't plan...