Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site druxo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!drutx!druxo!knf From: knf@druxo.UUCP (FricklasK) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Send to multiple newsgroup (please read, Leeper) Message-ID: <907@druxo.UUCP> Date: Tue, 16-Jul-85 12:19:15 EDT Article-I.D.: druxo.907 Posted: Tue Jul 16 12:19:15 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 18-Jul-85 03:24:08 EDT Organization: AT&T Information Systems Laboratories, Denver Lines: 24 This is a request to all those who think that everybody not only needs to read their review once, but twice or more: STOP POSTING TO MORE THAN ONE NEWS GROUP!!! (LISTEN LEEPER!) Not all readers of news read only one newsgroup, net.sf-lovers! When I want to read a major movie review, I read net.movies. When I want to read a book review of a NON-SF book, I read net.books. And when I read a review of the new book by Piers Anthony, I expect it to be in net.sf-lovers. (Maybe mentioning Anthony was a bad idea...) I don't need to see every article twice. Now I realize that some of you put a lot of work into your little reviews, but I STILL don't need to read them twice. What I ask is the following: use a teaser! (teaser: [tee-zer] n. a two line description in a newsgroup describing an article in another newsgroup meant to inform interested parties that an article they might want to read exists elsewhere.) For example, Leeper might post to sf-lovers: -> SEE NET.MOVIES FOR THE LATEST IN MARK LEEPER'S OBNOXIOUS REVIEWS!!! -> This week Mark Reviews Mad Max Beyond the Pleasuredome, -> Blue Sonja, Forward to the Past, Gunkies, and Brunch of the Dead! This way I only need to read an article once. Or is this too difficult? This would also challenge article writers to come up with new and more interesting teasers.