Pete "Gramps" Ashdown sez:
quoted 5 lines Urp... I did the original CFD in December of '91. It got voted down. Then> Urp... I did the original CFD in December of '91. It got voted down. Then
> someone in the UK created it anyway. Brian was around before the creation,
> and I'm fairly certain he saw it bantered around on alt.config. Lazlo Nibble
> also had some part in the ensuing discussion, although I can't remember if he
> was pro or con.
Yeah, I think I remember some discussion in rec.music.industrial
about it. alt.config was stereotypically anal and shot it down,
someone newgrouped it anyway, and then it went on to be very
successful just like most other non-joke groups that alt.config didn't
like but got newgrouped anyway. :-)
-Howard "Thank goodness for Becker :-)" Berkey
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