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From: karl@ficc.uu.net (Karl Lehenbauer)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: The Dynamics of Debate on USENET
Message-ID: <6389@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 2 Oct 89 19:27:57 GMT
References: <35037@apple.Apple.COM> <147@isgtec.UUCP> <35097@apple.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: karl@ficc.uu.net (Karl Lehenbauer)
Organization: Ferranti International Controls
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In article <35097@apple.Apple.COM> chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
>>    Interestingly, USENET debates have a property that doesn't exist with
>>face-to-face debates: multiple participants separated by huge temporal delays.

I think the posting of articles saying stuff that has already been said is
caused by people responding before reading all the messages in the group.
This is particularly unfortunate when done by 'rn' users, for whom the 'm'
command will make interesting articles come back and, after viewing all
the relevant articles, these users can then make a decision as to whether
or not to post.
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