"Every Home Is Wired": 3 -- Endnotes

If you followed a link from the thesis text, the yellow arrows will lead you back to the bite you came from.

7	This excludes crossposts from commercial spammers sending junk mail to many unrelated groups at once, those caused by unfamiliarity with the Net's newsgroups structure, and deliberate attempts to disrupt discussions.
8	The rules of group creation are much simpler in the alt.* hierarchy: anyone can create a newsgroup there, while groups located elsewhere must be voted on. Rec.music.progressive started as alt.music.progressive in 1992, too (born out of more general groups, and specific mailing-lists), and was converted into r.m.p in 1995.
9	That last analogy is limited, since Web sites can be created more easily than all three 'real world' equivalents.
10	News and rumours often give rise to further discussions of their implications -- during the period of observation, for example, of the insights into early Yes offered by a newly-released archival Yes live recording, in the thread "Something's coming", and of the quality of Rick Wakeman's recent work, in "Rick Wakeman NEWS!"

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