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From: bala@ut-ngp.UTEXAS (bala)
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Subject: Re: Removing net.flame
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Date: Mon, 8-Jul-85 13:23:02 EDT
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From: fair@ucbvax.ARPA (Erik E. Fair) Message-ID: <8853@ucbvax.ARPA>

> For the class of postings that appear in both net.flame and in some
> other newsgroup, having net.flame does no good, since the flames are
> also being posted to the group involved.  Ucbvax keeps one month of
> netnews on line, and the numbers there are 49% cross posted (338
> articles), 51% only in net.flame (359 articles).
> So half the identified flames on the network already DO appear in the
> other newsgroups.

Has anyone looked at net.politics or net.women recently and to a lesser
degree net.social and net.followup?  I think the "stats" on net.politics
and maybe net.women approach the 50% cross-posting like net.flame. I was
just reviewing the last 200-250 articles on net.politics and most of them
were cross-posted with net.women and/or net.social and/or net.followup.
"You know what I really hate?"  I hate to have to continually use the 'n'
key in vnews (ut-ngp doesn't have rn) having already read the particular
articles in another newsgroup.  net.politics really pulls in articles so
the cross-posting doesn't help any.  Maybe the discussion on net.flame will
also address the problems with cross-posting (especially net.politics
since almost any discussion can be [and is] considered 'political').