Geoff Burling wrote:
Usenet is often little more than idle gossip traded by
computer users
waiting for their programs to compile -- & I challenge anyone to offer a
simple rule to determine which posts are unsuitable for citation, & which
are. (I suspect that any such argument will simply be a reprise of the
recent discussion over which pictures are suitable for children, except
that Wikipedia has no way to turn off Usenet citations.)
That sounds like a notability argument, which is another matter
entirely. There are plenty of non-notable things not worth a mention in
Wikipedia. However, I'm not sure the alt.usenet.kooks "KOTM award" is
one of them---I had heard of it before coming to Wikipedia, and it's
somewhat well-known in the net-culture world. Not quite the [[IgNobel
Awards]] --- another set of "anti-awards" --- but not entirely
unheard-of either.
-Mark