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Also known as: talk
The Big 8 branch set aside for contentious argument: politics, religion, and similar perennial disputes. It exists partly so that flame-prone subjects had somewhere to go, and so that an administrator wanting a quieter feed could drop the whole branch in one line of configuration. Groups such as talk.origins produced long-lived reference FAQs. Present-day volume is thin and heavily diluted by spam.
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