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From: dave@circadia.UUCP (David Messer)
Newsgroups: net.news,net.news.group,net.flame
Subject: Re: Re: Fear and Loathing on the Clouds
Message-ID: <199@circadia.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 4-Nov-85 08:49:29 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov  4 08:49:29 1985
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> Instead of removing the groups, why not make it impossible to
> cross-post from them.  Thus something posted to net.politics,
> net.flame, and net.misc, e.g., will only go to net.politics.

And for that matter; is cross-posting really necessary at all?
A large part of the information flood is caused by people
cross-posting to every newsgroup they can think of.  For
instance, the above newsgroup list (unchanged from the
original posting).  Net.flame is the worst group for this;
virtually every posting in net.flame is cross-posted to the
group to which the sender wants to flame.
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David Messer   UUCP:  ...ihnp4!circadia!dave
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