The teeDOTbee Community FAQ

Please do us a favor and READ THIS FAQ and read the group carefully before posting. Please DO NOT CROSSPOST into our community. (We read the rest of the net, too, we don't need multiple copies of your cleverness.)

talk.bizarre is a virtual community

talk.bizarre is a virtual community

Unlike other Usenet Newsgroups, the denizens here all know each other -- perhaps not in person, but definitely in spirit. This is not a ``bulletin board'' or a ``message area.'' It is a community.

boutell@netcom.com (Thomas Boutell) writes:
| I've come to believe that talk.bizarre must be simultaneously
| a loving, hugging, COME HOLD ME YOU BIG GALOOT community of
| sweet sensitive koala bears and a boiling death-swamp
| of fifty-foot fire-breathing clue mosquitoes.

Diane Wilson (thwilson@bnr.ca) wrote:
| One metamessage of talk.bizarre is, "This could be the truth,
| and you'd never know."

You can be part of our community.

How:

1. Read Before You Post. (We call this "Read Learn Evolve.")
2. Never post non-bizarre things. (We call this: "Fail to Suck.")
3. Keep postings short and well-written. (We call this: "Editing.")

Except for one thing, of course. You must report to reprogramming to have the Monty Python portion of your brain removed. We don't DO Python here.

Here is a handy list of some other things that are not considered bizarre:

• advertisements,
• surveys,
• moneymaking schemes,
• crossposts,
• smileys,
• Monty Python,
• net "celebrities" (we created them),
• any posts which could contain boastful uses of the words "me too,"
• long .signatures,
• personal ads,
• anything that belongs in a newsgroup containing the name CONFIG, FAN, FLAME, HUMOR, IRC, MISC, RELIGION, STARTREK, or TASTELESS,

• unattributed work of other artists.

ceej@genmagic.com (C J Silverio) wrote:
| The management reserves the right to discriminate
| on the grounds of stupidity. It might enjoy mocking
| your self-hatred, in a casual way, but it's stupidity
| that gets you killfiled.