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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
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Posted: Tue Jul 16 12:19:15 1985
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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.