Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!mcdchg!ddsw1!rissa
From: rissa@ddsw1.UUCP (Patricia O Tuama)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: A SERIOUS DILEMMA FOR THE NET
Message-ID: <1744@ddsw1.UUCP>
Date: 21 Sep 88 05:24:35 GMT
References: <7086@gryphon.CTS.COM> <7090@gryphon.CTS.COM> <931@psuhcx.psu.edu>
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In article <931@psuhcx.psu.edu> wcf@psuhcx (Bill Fenner) writes:
>I'm sorry, form letters don't impress me.  I agree with your sentiments,
>but you *could* just say "I agree!" instead of posting the (basically) same
>article with minor changes multiple times.

You know, we expected people to flame us for the cross-postings (thank
you, Gil) and we expected people to misunderstand what we were saying
(thank you, "Murdock") but I don't think any of us expected that people
would complain about the fact that we all used the same basic message.
I mean it's almost as though people are accusing us of having violated
some secret net.code of creativity or originality.

The reason for the same message was to draw a lot of attention to what
we were saying.  Portal.admin appears to ignore virtually everything
their users write here or how they say it.  And, of course, the reason
we all used the same subject line was so that people who didn't want to
read about this could quickly and easily kill all of the subsequent
postings at once.

I must admit I am somewhat gratified, however, that so many people appear
to have read them all the way through.  I put a very small joke at the
end of mine about machine politics here in the windy city and frankly I 
figured no one would see it.