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From: jordan@ucbvax.ARPA (Jordan Hayes)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Abuse of the Net
Message-ID: <8653@ucbvax.ARPA>
Date: Sun, 30-Jun-85 23:06:42 EDT
Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8653
Posted: Sun Jun 30 23:06:42 1985
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References: <230@luke.UUCP> <1704@amdahl.UUCP> <313@azure.UUCP>
Reply-To: jordan@ucbvax.UUCP (Jordan Hayes)
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Organization: University of California at Berkeley
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In article <313@azure.UUCP> chrisa@azure.UUCP (Chris Andersen) writes:

>I have a suggestion that I think might go a long way tworads aleviating(sp?)
>some of the problems rearing their ugly heads on the net.

... dribble about the evils of cross-posting...

>Instead, make a copy of the posting, and send each one
>to what you consider the appropriate newsgroups *SEPERATELY*!!!  This way,
>each group gets a crack at building (or tearing apart) a worthwhile (or not)
>discussion concerning the subject *without disturbing other newsgroups*!
>
>The moral is:  Never post to more then one newsgroup at a time.

Well, I thought that was a "feature" of this software. Vnews seems to
only let you see those messages once (if you are in mutiple groups), and
also there is the Followup-to: line... Don't go and put mindless
restrictions on normal users... let's just encourage socially
responsible uses of the net. When I flame someone, I usually cross-post
to net.flame and followup-to there as well, unless it is truely
a flame that should continue in the discussion group. Then, those
who subscribe to both groups who want to further the flame can do so...

Hmmm... I wish I could followup-to net.twilight.zone or net./dev/null...
this is getting a little boring...


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