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alt.religion.scientology of course.

alt.chan.4.pol

Um, conflating anarcho-capitalists with alt-right is passe. https://fee.org/articles/five-differences-between-the-alt-ri...

...You didn't get it.

No, I did not. Mind explaining?

Go to alt.alien.vampire.flonk.fonk.flonk and ask if they are really aliens and what's a flonk.

Don was talking about alt.right (obviously a play on alt-right: but probably also the alt-right news group, if there is one). However, the standard acronym expansion for the alt hierarchy on the usenet (it actually stands for alternative) is Anarchists, Lunatics, and Terrorists: partly a running gag and partly because alt.* was (and still is) the wild west of the usenet: a lawless wasteland, with the occasional specks of civilization.

> partly because alt.* was (and still is) the wild west of the usenet: a lawless wasteland, with the occasional specks of civilization.

...and even that was too restricted for some people, which is one of the reasons free.* was set up.

http://wiki.killfile.org/projects/usenet/faqs/free/

For some people, any restriction is too much. It's the 4chan vs 8chan thing.

Congress?

HN?

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