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  Is it silly to ask academic questions in Usenet? "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2026-06-23 21:07 +0800
    Re: Is it silly to ask academic questions in Usenet? snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) - 2026-06-23 14:56 +0100
      Re: Is it silly to ask academic questions in Usenet? "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2026-06-23 16:40 +0200
      Re: Is it silly to ask academic questions in Usenet? "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2026-06-24 00:32 +0800
        Re: Is it silly to ask academic questions in Usenet? snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) - 2026-06-23 18:52 +0100
          Re: Is it silly to ask academic questions in Usenet? "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2026-06-24 15:06 +0800
            [OT] Re: Is it silly to ask academic questions in Usenet? snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) - 2026-06-24 12:17 +0100
              Re: [OT] Re: Is it silly to ask academic questions in Usenet? "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2026-06-24 23:57 +0800
            Re: Is it silly to ask academic questions in Usenet? "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2026-06-24 14:46 +0200
              Re: Is it silly to ask academic questions in Usenet? "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2026-06-24 23:58 +0800
        Re: Is it silly to ask academic questions in Usenet? "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> - 2026-06-23 18:32 +0000
          Re: Is it silly to ask .... "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2026-06-24 15:06 +0800
        Re: Is it silly to ask academic questions in Usenet? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2026-06-23 15:23 -0400
          Re: Is it silly to ask academic questions in Usenet? snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) - 2026-06-23 21:35 +0100
          Re: Is it silly to ask academic questions in Usenet? "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2026-06-24 15:10 +0800
      Re: Is it silly to ask academic questions in Usenet? "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2026-06-24 15:11 +0800
        Re: Is it silly to ask academic questions in Usenet? The True Melissa <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> - 2026-06-24 06:28 -0400
          [OT] Re: Is it silly to ask academic questions in Usenet? snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) - 2026-06-24 12:17 +0100
            Re: [OT] Re: Is it silly to ask ... curses and seals "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2026-06-25 00:00 +0800

#65992 — Is it silly to ask academic questions in Usenet?

Is it silly to ask academic questions in Usenet?

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#65994

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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#65996

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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s|b

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#65998

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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#65999

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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                 My pet rock Gordon just is.

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#66009

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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    @~@   Simplicity is Beauty! Remain silent! Drink, Blink, Stretch!
   / v \  May the Force and farces be with you! Live long and prosper!!
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#66021 — [OT] Re: Is it silly to ask academic questions in Usenet?

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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#66028 — Re: [OT] Re: Is it silly to ask academic questions in Usenet?

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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#66026

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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s|b

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#66029

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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   / v \  May the Force and farces be with you! Live long and prosper!!
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#66000

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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#66010 — Re: Is it silly to ask ....

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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#66001

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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#66002

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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#66011

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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    @~@   Simplicity is Beauty! Remain silent! Drink, Blink, Stretch!
   / v \  May the Force and farces be with you! Live long and prosper!!
  /( _ )\ https://sites.google.com/site/changmw/
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#66012

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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    @~@   Simplicity is Beauty! Remain silent! Drink, Blink, Stretch!
   / v \  May the Force and farces be with you! Live long and prosper!!
  /( _ )\ https://sites.google.com/site/changmw/
    ^ ^   https://github.com/changmw/changmw

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#66018

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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#66022 — [OT] Re: Is it silly to ask academic questions in Usenet?

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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#66030 — Re: [OT] Re: Is it silly to ask ... curses and seals

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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   / v \  May the Force and farces be with you! Live long and prosper!!
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