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person, moving in with each other, etc.) is probably only in the range of a couple of dozen; alt.callahans is the only other usenet one I can think of from this period that was not professionally based. Documenting the history of how virtual community became physical community in the early days of the net is important.
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It's not OR, it's not NPOV, it's verifiable. It's not a hoax, though obviously I didn't stress the probably fictional aspect enough. It's not something a friend of mine made up; I'd not heard of it or richh until around when I wrote the article. I'd agree that it was only trivially notable if it
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Non notable sex toy. The only mentions are by the one person, RICHH on some blog. I can't find any other mentions on the web. Also, the book entry states only a mention of the device, but fails to give any description about it. I say
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