From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!lime!houti!kdh
Newsgroups: net.general
Title: Multiple postings of articles (small flame)
Article-I.D.: houti.135
Posted: Thu Aug 12 13:43:08 1982
Received: Sun Aug 15 01:22:18 1982


	This is a small flame related to multiple postings of an article.
Would those of you out in Net-land please try to refrain from posting
the same article more than once?  Having a second, identical/almost
identical posting of an article to the same group is a bother to read,
especially at low modem speeds, and doubly so since from the date stamp
it may appear to be a second article on the subject.  In addition,
it increases the amount of stuff which has to be transmitted
(although that per se is not of concern to me personally).
	The most recent example of this is utzoo!laura's article on
signing articles (no personal attack intended, Laura).  I assume that
the second posting (which has marginally different wording, and occurred
~15 minutes after the first) was prompted by some apparent failure on the
part of postnews, inews, or whatever flavor of article progenitor
is currently in use.  Before re-posting an article, could you check to
see if it has indeed made it? (That "you" was intended in the plural,
global sense.)  This would save us time, transmission costs and storage.
	One final flare-up before I turn off the gas:  Could people watch
the 80-character line length stuff?  It's a bit annoying to lose a couple
of words per line in an otherwise interesting article.
	For those of you who already do all this stuff, I apologise for
making you sit through this - we all have our pet peeves.

					Kevin Hunter
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