Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watmath.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!credmond From: credmond@watmath.UUCP (Chris Redmond) Newsgroups: net.music,net.rumor,net.flame,net.singles,net.women Subject: Re: Most Bitter Attack on A Good Man Message-ID: <15466@watmath.UUCP> Date: Thu, 27-Jun-85 11:58:13 EDT Article-I.D.: watmath.15466 Posted: Thu Jun 27 11:58:13 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 28-Jun-85 00:49:50 EDT References: <1079@princeton.UUCP> <4488@mit-eddie.UUCP> <675@lsuc.UUCP> <249@tove.UUCP> Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 24 Xref: watmath net.music:8039 net.rumor:945 net.flame:10826 net.singles:7537 net.women:6109 > > How about a new news group, net.music.rumor, for all you people who insist on > sending stuff to every news group in the known universe. Hear, hear. Does *anybody* in most of these newsgroups know, or care, what this exchange is all about? The arbitrary labelling of groups does mean that things have to be cross-posted sometimes. And arbitrary labelling is inevitable. But common sense might be applied once in a while. And I've heard a rumour that it's possible to *edit* the newsgroup line of a posting, to avoid sending something to (for example) net.singles or net.women which belongs in net.flame or net.micro. Maybe it's time for somebody to consider a regrouping of net.singles, net.women, net.women.only, net.social and net.politics into something else. For example: net.relationships, net.society, net.public-affairs, net.liberation and net.cosmetics. But that's just an idle suggestion, and it still wouldn't get rid of the random flamers. CAR