... place.1
``Usenet is a strange place'' is a famous quote by Dennis M. Ritchie of Bell-Labs fame. If you don't know who Dennis Ritchie is, oh boy, you have some reading to catch up on (http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/who/dmr/ for starters)! 
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... celebrities2
amusingly enough, alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.Gillian-Andersons-head-on-other-womens-bodies, for example does in fact exist 
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... Warp-Drive3
in rec.arts.startrek.tech, for example 
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... add4
it just so happens that the author himself was born that year 
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... nowadays5
approx. 12 megabits a second, more than 100 gigabytes of data per day 
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... Cabal6
a group of site admins participating in a mailing list created to encourage stable news and mail software 
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... down.7
following this ``September that never ended'', so many postings consisting only and entirely of the words ``me, too!'' appeared all over Usenet, that a new ``acronym'' was created soon thereafter: ``AOL!'' or alternatively ``. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
... comp.os.linux.misc8
for arguments sake only - this is only partly true: de.comp.os.linux.* has been moved to de.comp.os.unix.linux.* 
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... free.*9
the free.-hierarchy follows a somewhat different approach than the others - it is considered to be more anarchic (see http://www.cs.ruu.nl/wais/html/na-dir/free/charter.html) 
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... tasks10
Remember the Unix Philosophy: "do one thing and do it right" (http://www.linuxpertise.com/book/2971/29710107.htm) 
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... mutt11
http://www.mutt.org 
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... mind.''12
this is a famous quote by Terry Pratchett - you will surely encounter it numerous times 
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... modem13
some people pay their ISP by the minute, not a flat fee! 
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... too14
I told you there are rules you might not understand right away - but read on and you will see that it makes sense 
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... ''15
that is dash-dash-space 
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... yourself16
refer to fortune(1) and strfile(1) for details 
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... replies17
see "Troll" in [6] 
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... ``killfiling''18
see ``plonk'' in [6] 
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... system19
in the case of ``nonexistent.user@your.host'', the message is delivered to your host 
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... mailserver20
in the case of ``anybody@nonexistent.host'' the delivering mailserver must perform an unsuccessful DSN-lookup, or even worse, the ``nonexistent.host'' does in fact exist and you put more load on that server 
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