Re: `X-Files' movie title is out there: `I Want to Believe'

In article
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Casey McDonald's Guidance Counsellor, Ian J. Ball
<ijball***SPAM-No***@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> In article <M7iOj.3049$ko5.2683@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>  "Kestra" <kestra1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> > "Garondo Marondo" <Classic.Mr.Hole@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
> >
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> > > By DAVID GERMAIN, AP Movie Writer
> > >
> > > The filmmakers have kept the story tightly under wraps to prevent
plot
> > > spoilers from leaking on the Internet, a phenomenon that barely
> > > existed when the first movie came out in 1998.
> > 
> > Oh, come on. We were talking X-files on US Undernet IRC #X-files in
1996.
> > The internet was a lot slower and it was before every man and his dog
had a 
> > net connection, but it was definitely there and working.
> > It didn't "barely exist".
> 
> alt.tv.x-files was also one of the biggest usenet groups c. 1996. 
> 
> That was a silly thing for the re****ter to say.


It sure was.  We were talking about TV shows more than ten years before
that in CompuServe and GEnie fora and SIGs.