From: lsimonetta@newsguy.com 
  
 On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 01:10:29 +0000 (UTC), Joe Bernstein 
  wrote: 
  
 SNIP 
  
 > In recent years, it's been considerably less an issue.  I find in 
 > a date-sorted Google search (with the concomitant unreliability of 
 > dates) the following most-recent cases of possible political failures, 
 > with my criteria being a) the group must have failed; b) the group 
 > must have received at least 100 votes; c) the group must have 
 > received more than a typical number of NO votes (I've removed groups 
 > I started by listing, where they got less than 40); d) there must be 
 > some identifiably possible political reason for those NO votes. 
  
 SNIP 
  
 Please tell I am not the only one that this post produced some 
 scary flashbacks of the last N years of news.groups? 
  
 In my case N=7. 
  
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 Nothing personal, but I find communication here impossible. 
 No matter how many times I write the same thing over and over 
 again, it doesn't help.  ORFNUGEN6 on news.groups 
  
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