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From: mcb@k.cs.cmu.edu (Michael Browne)
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Subject: Re: proposed destruction of net.bizarre
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Date: Thu, 24-Oct-85 11:43:48 EDT
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In article <384@cad.cs.cmu.edu> mjc@cad.cs.cmu.edu (Monica Cellio) writes:
>From: mcb@k.cs.cmu.edu
>>Yes, there was a discussion in net.news.group, but I doubt if most of the
>>bizarre people participated.  [...]
>>WHY DIDN'T YOU CROSSPOST THE DELETION DISCUSSION TO NET.BIZARRE SO THAT
>>EVERYONE COULD PARTICIPATE???
>
>I don't have the old posts to back this up, but I think the initial message
>in that discussion was posted to net.bizarre as well.  

I don't think so.  If there was any mention of deletion in net.bizarre, it
didn't mention voting.  (I read EVERY article in net.bizarre, so I would
remember seeing a deletion notice.)

>If people can't take
>enough of an interest to read net.news.group when their pet group is being
>discussed, I hardly think the rest of the net is to blame.  

If I had known of the discussion, I would have read net.news.group and
participated.  THAT'S WHAT I'M COMPLAINING ABOUT!!!  I would have been
interested enough to read net.news.group IF I HAD KNOWN THAT MY "PET" GROUP
WAS SCHEDULED FOR DELETION!!!  Furthermore, I'm not blaming the rest of the
net, only the people in net.news.group. :-)

>What you are
>implying is that almost every message in net.news.group should be
>cross-posted somewhere else as well.

In the case of messages about deletion, that's exactly what I'm implying.
(OK, maybe not EVERY message, but the message that calls for votes should
DEFINITELY be cross-posted.)  If the voting had been cross-posted to
net.bizarre, I would not be happy about the deletion, but I would have
accepted it.  But it wasn't, so I'm not and I don't.

P.S. - I noticed that net.bizarre was back this morning.  Since I
"threatened" to recreate net.bizarre in a previous post, I want say that
I didn't do it.  (I DO believe in following rules.)
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