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Jim, once again you don't know what you are talking about. The first Moderated Newsgroup started in 1984 and the first web server went online around 1990-91.

Lest you try to argue:

The Usenet started in 1979, by 1984 there were 2 top levels "MOD" and "NET". All MOD level groups were moderated, from the very beginning. The NET level contained everything else. Then around 1986 the "great renaming" took place and by 1988 we wound up with 7 top levels which is the foundation of what exists today. That was when I started gracing these halls, just as the dust was settling.

The first WWW server (CERN) was cranked up in 1990 but it was not made public until 1991. It was announced in the Usenet newsgroup, alt.hypertext, in August of 1991. The WINSOCK was released in 1992. This made the Internet available to the masses via a graphical interface, instead of the more difficult command line, thus kick-starting the WWW explosion.

Mike

Disclaimer: All dates are approximate, give or a take a year!

Understandably so. Rats are smart, clean, affectionate pets. Rat hair finds its way into my mouth daily, after kissing the little loves.

Catch rat scratch fever:

--crymad

On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 19:48:00 -0800, crymad tripped the light fantastic, then quipped:

Unfortunately, I do. I'm sorely allergic to them, but I miss the company of Miss Twinkie, Sweet Pea, Comet, and others. Even my dog and cats thought they were nice to have around as pals.

Tee

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Although I'm a mouse guy and have never owned a rat, I have struck up a friendship with the occasional rat and can vouch for the truth of crymad's pronouncement. I don't suppose many of you are much into hearing about mouse kissies, so I'll forgo further discussion at this time. Like rats, mice spend a good part of the day keeping themselves in perfect trim. And my mice were always happy to see me and goof around even when humans were not. Miss the little guys.

Drinking Lin Yun White Down. Listening to Vivaldi picolo concerti. Unfortunately no mice in sight.

Michael

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When you think about it, "Bai Hao" (white down) is descriptive. "Formosa Champagne" is a marketing phrase.

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Jim,

Never fear the extraneous material you discover in your leaf and brew; fear that which you don't find.

BTW, there is a good point to be had from your Bai Hao discussion: Many Chinese descriptive phrases find their way to more than one type of tea. Bai Hao describes a type of green tea as well as it describes a type of oolong and is used to name both. Don't blame me though.

Now, back to the rat goodie count. (Reminds me of a story about ants and aphids....)

Michael

No Lie,

The one that really grossed me out was that a small can of mushrooms is allowed to contain up to 40 maggots.... And I love mushrooms......

Mike

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Moderated Newgroups was a design of the USENET. The intended use was moderation by academics,scientists and other professionals to keep the posts on topic and discourage the curious. As it turned out moderators were hard to come by. The core argument for dropping MOD was the experience that everyone agreed to play by some rules which became the defacto USENET etiquette. USENET was self contained and self regulating with no outside influences. It was no more than public email. The first complete obliteration of high level unmoderated groups by the WWW was alt.sex.* by 1995. This is simple USENET history. There wasn't the necessary critcal mass to keep them going moderated. Currently unmoderated groups are disappearing at historic rates. The groups most insulated so far from the WWW contageon are the computer groups. Basically they're geeks and cheapskates and everything should be free.

Jim

Not to mention *Oriental Beauty*.

/Lew

I worked at a canning factory every summer doing college. The stories I could tell. I still don't eat canned vegetables. I'm going to insist my agricultural service update it assay profile for insect excretia. How do you know the websites aren't substituting snail sludge. My stomach trumps my palette. I only recommend taking a blow torch to the kettle. It wasn't always the case. If the elephant is still under the BigTop and since I found my contacts I did some more research and made a call. The Formosa oolong is called Bai Hai. My source said he got a call from Georgia once and the lady came back from Taiwan and wanted some BooHoo. This in response to my question why almost everybody seems to call it BaiHao. The real problem with transliteration nobody in Chinatown understands what you mean and we use it to confuse ourselves. I made a note to add the characters for BaiHao and BaiHai to my cheat sheet. The only way this works is find the rosetta can of tea in the store with Chinese and English and see what is inside. Or since I recently got my phone's company version of broadband high speed dsl I can go surfing for those UTF-8 webpages in Chinese. If it's 5 miles to the phone switch I'm sitting at mile marker 7 and not getting what I pay for with the babybell disclaimer your results will vary. Anyway better than 14.4. It's been too long since I've been to Chinatown. You'll get more hits on Lin Yun BaiHao. The rats are scurrying for cover since the Asian bird flu outbreak.

Jim

Michael Plant wrote in message news:...

But how much elephant excreta is allowed in food?

N.

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Funny you should ask. According to the lLaws of the United States of America, any amount. Elephant excreta is *not* specifically mentioned on the list. Well, mammal, I guess. Also, I suppose an elephant turd in a can of tuna could be considered unaesthetic by some.

BTW, I have never seen chapati cooked on an elephant pie. Why?

Michael

crymad wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@xprt.net:

I can relate. I once had a Japanese hooded rat, which I got from a pet store when barely weaned. She very much liked to kiss--the first time she snuffled between my lips to find my tongue, I was a bit afraid she would consider it a tasty treat, but it turned out to be just affection (or whatever animal impulse). She would chase my fingers much like a cat will do, and she liked to sit on my shoulder, my head, or best of all, my shirt pocket. That's where she was the day I learned that rats tend to urinate in much greater volume than, say, hamsters. On the other paw, I've never had a hamster want to sit in my pocket, so there you are.

Nice! I'm not *that* much of a fan, but glad to know it's there.

While intrepidly exploring rec.food.drink.tea, Michael Ryan rolled initiative and posted the following:

Nope. Mike probably got it right the first time. Ted Danson plays John Becker, an obnoxious physician who pontificates on everything in such a way that, even if he's right, you just don't care.

While intrepidly exploring rec.food.drink.tea, Mike Petro rolled initiative and posted the following:

Not surprising. There is, in fact, a highly prized (or is that "priced") coffee produced from the beans that have passed through the digestive tract of palm civets in Indonesia.

While intrepidly exploring rec.food.drink.tea, Space Cowboy rolled initiative and posted the following:

Have you figured out yet that you're the only one who cares?

And the best durians are reputed to be those that have passed through the innards of an non-chewing elephant. Of course, the concept of "best" with respect to durian is perhaps more subjective than usual.

-DM

While intrepidly exploring rec.food.drink.tea, Dog Ma 1 rolled initiative and posted the following:

Ok, I had to go and look that one up. And now I'm not sure that "best" and "durian" can actually be used in the same sentence.

Recursive questions make my head hurt.

Jim