• Is it silly to ask academic questions in Usenet?

    From Mr. Man-wai Chang@toylet.toylet@gmail.com to alt.free.newsservers on Tue Jun 23 21:07:54 2026
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    Is it silly to ask academic questions in Usenet?
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  • From snipeco.2@snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) to alt.free.newsservers on Tue Jun 23 14:56:34 2026
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    Mr. Man-wai Chang <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> wrote:

    Is it silly to ask academic questions in Usenet?

    No, not if you ask in the right place.
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  • From s|b@me@privacy.invalid to alt.free.newsservers on Tue Jun 23 16:40:56 2026
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    On Tue, 23 Jun 2026 14:56:34 +0100, Sn!pe wrote:

    Mr. Man-wai Chang <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> wrote:

    Is it silly to ask academic questions in Usenet?

    No, not if you ask in the right place.

    [HINT]
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  • From Mr. Man-wai Chang@toylet.toylet@gmail.com to alt.free.newsservers on Wed Jun 24 00:32:27 2026
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    On 6/23/2026 9:56 PM, Sn!pe wrote:
    Mr. Man-wai Chang <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> wrote:

    Is it silly to ask academic questions in Usenet?

    No, not if you ask in the right place.


    Cross-posting is not welcomed.

    How can I find my interesting B.Sc. degree that spans over different discplines?
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  • From snipeco.2@snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) to alt.free.newsservers on Tue Jun 23 18:52:19 2026
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    Mr. Man-wai Chang <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 6/23/2026 9:56 PM, Sn!pe wrote:
    Mr. Man-wai Chang <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> wrote:

    Is it silly to ask academic questions in Usenet?

    No, not if you ask in the right place.

    Cross-posting is not welcomed.


    So don't crosspost.


    How can I find my interesting B.Sc. degree that spans over different discplines?


    This group is about free newsservers, not searching for your degree,
    your question is OT (off topic) here. Look in the list of newsgroups in
    your 'reader for a likely group where your question might be on topic
    and ask there.
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  • From Adam H. Kerman@ahk@chinet.com to alt.free.newsservers on Tue Jun 23 18:32:59 2026
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    Mr. Man-wai Chang <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> wrote:

    Cross-posting is not welcomed.

    How can I find my interesting B.Sc. degree that spans over different >discplines?

    Return to the place you discarded it and pick it up off the floor.
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  • From Paul@nospam@needed.invalid to alt.free.newsservers on Tue Jun 23 15:23:02 2026
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    On Tue, 6/23/2026 12:32 PM, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
    On 6/23/2026 9:56 PM, Sn!pe wrote:
    Mr. Man-wai Chang <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> wrote:

    Is it silly to ask academic questions in Usenet?

    No, not if you ask in the right place.


    Cross-posting is not welcomed.

    How can I find my interesting B.Sc. degree that spans over different discplines?


    Each discipline in your degree, has a group, if there is a constituency of people who have participated.

    You could, for example, ask a physics question in Sci.Physics .
    Cross-posting to alt.chemistry.drugs would be inappropriate for
    your physics question.

    For your Basket Weaving course, there are Basket Weavers out there,
    who make baskets continuously. But there aren't likely to be a lot
    of them sitting behind a terminal and posting on USENET, as they
    are too busy making Baskets to talk to you. There is a commercial
    enterprise back home, which sells baskets made by artisans in
    the community. And you have to make an awful lot of baskets, to eat.

    For your Velvet Art course, yes, Elvis was a real person.
    Elvis entertained us, because he knew that some day, he
    would be captured in Velvet and pictures sold in gas station parking lots.
    The instructor probably didn't tell you why you had to
    make pictures of Elvis.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velvet_Elvis

    Paul
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  • From snipeco.2@snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) to alt.free.newsservers on Tue Jun 23 21:35:16 2026
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    Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote:

    [...]

    For your Velvet Art course, yes, Elvis was a real person.
    Elvis entertained us, because he knew that some day, he
    would be captured in Velvet and pictures sold in gas station parking lots. The instructor probably didn't tell you why you had to
    make pictures of Elvis.

    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velvet_Elvis>


    That is my thing that I learned about today; thank you, Paul.
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  • From Mr. Man-wai Chang@toylet.toylet@gmail.com to alt.free.newsservers on Wed Jun 24 15:06:14 2026
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    On 6/24/2026 1:52 AM, Sn!pe wrote:

    How can I find my interesting B.Sc. degree that spans over different
    discplines?


    This group is about free newsservers, not searching for your degree,
    your question is OT (off topic) here. Look in the list of newsgroups in
    your 'reader for a likely group where your question might be on topic
    and ask there.


    Can you recommend a newsgroup in Usenet for that? One that has real
    advice and suggestions, not OT crap or trolling or bullying or whatever.
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  • From Mr. Man-wai Chang@toylet.toylet@gmail.com to alt.free.newsservers on Wed Jun 24 15:06:55 2026
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    On 6/24/2026 2:32 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

    Return to the place you discarded it and pick it up off the floor.

    You talking about Monopoly the board game? OT.. off-topic.
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  • From Mr. Man-wai Chang@toylet.toylet@gmail.com to alt.free.newsservers on Wed Jun 24 15:10:05 2026
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    On 6/24/2026 3:23 AM, Paul wrote:

    Each discipline in your degree, has a group, if there is a constituency of people who have participated.

    You could, for example, ask a physics question in Sci.Physics .
    Cross-posting to alt.chemistry.drugs would be inappropriate for
    your physics question.

    Is there one and only one Usenet newsgroup to do that all at the same
    time? One that has people responding, not ghost town.

    Hopping between newsgroups is a total waste of time, and those
    newsgroups you recommended might not even have answers nor advice.
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  • From Mr. Man-wai Chang@toylet.toylet@gmail.com to alt.free.newsservers on Wed Jun 24 15:11:19 2026
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    On 6/23/2026 9:56 PM, Sn!pe wrote:
    Mr. Man-wai Chang <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> wrote:

    Is it silly to ask academic questions in Usenet?

    No, not if you ask in the right place.



    Is there an academic newsgroup for magic seals and mayhem in Usenet?
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  • From The True Melissa@thetruemelissa@gmail.com to alt.free.newsservers on Wed Jun 24 06:28:16 2026
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    Verily, in article <111fvuo$2quhg$5@toylet.eternal-september.org>, did toylet.toylet@gmail.com deliver unto us this message:

    On 6/23/2026 9:56 PM, Sn!pe wrote:
    Mr. Man-wai Chang <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> wrote:

    Is it silly to ask academic questions in Usenet?

    No, not if you ask in the right place.



    Is there an academic newsgroup for magic seals and mayhem in Usenet?

    You might try alt.religion.druid. It was once about neodruidism, hence
    the name, but it seems to be more about ceremonial magic these days.
    They might be able to help with magic seals.

    [You didn't think I'd actually know one, did you?]
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  • From snipeco.2@snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) to alt.free.newsservers on Wed Jun 24 12:17:14 2026
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    Mr. Man-wai Chang <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 6/24/2026 1:52 AM, Sn!pe wrote:

    How can I find my interesting B.Sc. degree that spans over different
    discplines?


    This group is about free newsservers, not searching for your degree,
    your question is OT (off topic) here. Look in the list of newsgroups in your 'reader for a likely group where your question might be on topic
    and ask there.


    Can you recommend a newsgroup in Usenet for that? One that has real
    advice and suggestions, not OT crap or trolling or bullying or whatever.


    I don't know of one from my own experience, sorry.
    You'll have to do some research for yourself.
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  • From snipeco.2@snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) to alt.free.newsservers on Wed Jun 24 12:17:15 2026
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    The True Melissa <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> wrote:

    Verily, in article <111fvuo$2quhg$5@toylet.eternal-september.org>, did toylet.toylet@gmail.com deliver unto us this message:

    [...]

    Is there an academic newsgroup for magic seals and mayhem in Usenet?

    You might try alt.religion.druid. It was once about neodruidism, hence
    the name, but it seems to be more about ceremonial magic these days.
    They might be able to help with magic seals.

    [You didn't think I'd actually know one, did you?]

    I once saw a seal balance a ball on its nose. It could also play
    'Yankee Doodle' on old motor horns, that was magical..
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  • From s|b@me@privacy.invalid to alt.free.newsservers on Wed Jun 24 14:46:05 2026
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    On Wed, 24 Jun 2026 15:06:14 +0800, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

    Can you recommend a newsgroup in Usenet for that? One that has real
    advice and suggestions, not OT crap or trolling or bullying or whatever.

    OT crap and trolling, isn't that right up your alley?
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  • From Mr. Man-wai Chang@toylet.toylet@gmail.com to alt.free.newsservers on Wed Jun 24 23:57:29 2026
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    On 6/24/2026 7:17 PM, Sn!pe wrote:

    I don't know of one from my own experience, sorry.
    You'll have to do some research for yourself.


    Usenet is basically a ghost town now. Sad to see this...
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  • From Mr. Man-wai Chang@toylet.toylet@gmail.com to alt.free.newsservers on Wed Jun 24 23:58:12 2026
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    On 6/24/2026 8:46 PM, s|b wrote:

    OT crap and trolling, isn't that right up your alley?


    You are going off-topic as well?? You don't fight fire with fire. :)
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  • From Mr. Man-wai Chang@toylet.toylet@gmail.com to alt.free.newsservers on Thu Jun 25 00:00:37 2026
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    On 6/24/2026 7:17 PM, Sn!pe wrote:

    I once saw a seal balance a ball on its nose. It could also play
    'Yankee Doodle' on old motor horns, that was magical..


    Have you ever heard of the curse of Oak Island?

    And the curses of some Egyptians tombs? That if you opened one, you be murdered mysteriously.

    And the curse on the Pope and the king of France when they purge Knight Templars?
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