alt.romath is a Usenet newsgroup created by Merle Elaine Matthews (aka "Tach'ara Ch'lan Romath"), who is a Canadian nurse and a born againChristian as a location for her to conduct investigations of people who had posted messages she described as spam or pornography to usenet. Critics of the initial creation of the group alleged that it was an exercise in vanity. The newsgroup was inundated with contributors to the Meow Wars in 1999. Participants in the self-styled "invasion" proclaimed themselves "Romathians." At one point, alt.romath had the largest monthly unique plain-text message count throughout the entire alt.* usenet hierarchy. Following the departure from Usenet of a majority of the Romathians, alt.romath fell into disuse. It has become more active lately, as Matthews and her friends have begun posting again. Usenet is a distributed Internet discussion system that evolved from a general purpose UUCP network of the same name. ... Born again is a term used originally and mainly in Christianity, where it is associated with salvation, conversion and spiritual rebirth. ... A Christian is a follower of Jesus Christ. ... The Meow Wars is often considered one of the largest Usenet flame wars of all time. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...
Flaming is the act of posting messages that are deliberately hostile and insulting, usually in the social context of a discussion board (usually on the Internet). ... An internet troll is a person who sends duplicitous messages hoping to get angry responses, or a message sent by such a person. ... Performance art is art where the actions of an individual or a group at a particular place and in a particular time, constitute the work. ...
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