> > Any other Brightons there may be need qualification eg Brighton, > > Planet Zog. > > When it comes to announcements on the web, it's safe to assume it > happens on earth. All other semi-civilized planets have their own > (mutually incompatible) networks, and as for *civilized* planets - I > guess they've got the sense not to mess with this mess at all ;-) ;-) ;-)
Mutually incompatible? Surely not. Several sci-fi movies (mentioning no Independence Days) make it clear that it's easy to link your network to that of the aliens, even if they're presumably trying to stop you. So conversely we must assume the aliens are all using the abcusers list, even though we don't see many of their posts. Even now debate is raging over an illegal adaptation of the "<gfargle>:" control code by players of the octoventral heebiephone... Thomas Bending To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html