Subject: Re: Does this newsgroup still serve a purpose?
From: larryy@Apple.COM (Larry Yaeger)
Date: 1991-07-22, 16:01
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <288A8429.12A6@ibma0.cs.uiuc.edu> noe@sunc7.cs.uiuc.edu (Roger Noe) writes:
> >With the series canceled and no likely prospects for resuscitation by
> >any other network or cable channel, and now no likely prospects for
> >/\Twin Peaks/\ to continue in another medium, I feel compelled to pose
> >the following question:
> >
> >Is there any good reason why alt.tv.twin-peaks should continue to exist?

Bottom line is, it ain't over till it's over, and it ain't over...

Assuming you've been reading a.t.tp recently you know that the movie is
not yet officially cancelled, just "on hold".  I have enjoyed the 1000
eyes and ears that this newsgroup has brought to bear on TP news items,
and fully expect to learn of any final resolution of TP movie issues
here, before I stumble across it in some other news source.

If the news is that there is no movie, no foreign TV deal, no nothing,
then you may want to raise the issue again.  Even then, however, other
countries still have not finished their run.  And ongoing discussion
may be desired by enough people to warrant the newsgroup's existence.
I personally hate wading through hundreds of postings on topics I don't
care about to find the little nugget I do want to read; e.g.,
rec.arts.sf-lovers... I really am a strong SF adherent, in both books
and films, yet finding the occasional gem of information about Terry
Pratchett or Douglas Adams or Greg Bear or Terminator 2 or whatever
amongst the incredibly huge number of postings in that group is a
genuine pain.  I would prefer to fragment the discussion radically,
and just subscribe to the groups I really care about.  Unfortunately,
I don't control such things, and instead must wade through literally
hundreds of postings a day!  alt.tv.twin-peaks is one of the very
few groups where I read every posting.

Anywho, when the posting rate drops to zero for a week or so, then
we'll all know it's over, regardless of our intentions and desires.
Why not let it die (or live) naturally?
-- -larryy@apple.com "You wouldn't recognize a *subtle plan* if it painted itself purple, and danced naked upon a harpsichord, singing, 'Subtle Plans are Here Again'." - Edmund Blackadder