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Newsgroups: alt.games.doom
Path: oz.cdrom.com!agate!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!uunet!EU.net!sunic!erinews.ericsson.se!ericom!news
From: eedraq@aachen.ericsson.se (Raphael Quinet)
Subject: Re: DON'T BRING UP OTHER GAMES, please! (w
Message-ID: <1994Sep1.191219.12540@ericsson.se>
Sender: news@ericsson.se
Nntp-Posting-Host: chapelle6.ericsson.se
Reply-To: eedraq@aachen.ericsson.se
Organization: Ericsson Eurolab Deutschland GmbH
References: <343rnm$h1u@illuminati.io.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 1994 19:12:19 GMT
Lines: 46
In article h1u@illuminati.io.com, hardball@io.com (Hardball) writes:
>
> : I posted 13 articles from May 30 - Aug 26. You must have missed them.
> : I've posted 18 articles since then - 2 of them followups to your posts...
>
> Yes, I was probably just running right over your messages with
> the 'K' key, which is exactly what alot of people like you need to figure
> out how to use.
I hate to reply to flames, but I just had to jump on this one...
First, is this so hard to keep the attribution line in the message? How
will people know that you are quoting a message from John Van Essen if you
just copy two lines from his message without saying where you took them from?
And more importantly, I think you should (re-)read John's messages carefully,
if you still have them somewhere. They make sense! And in your replies, you
delibarately ignored some of the important points. Well, I don't want to
flame you or anybody else, but you shouldn't be so short-minded. For example,
you wrote that some people just have to hit 'K' if they see a message which
does not belong to this newsgroup. This is OK for most people, but some
readers of a.g.d have no direct net access. They get their newsfeed during
the night, with their modem. They get _all_ messages which were sent to the
newsgroup and they have to pay for it. So when they want to hit 'K' because
some moron posted a huge binary file in a discussion group, it's already too
late: the file is on their computer and they paid for it. These poor guys
have to unsubscribe from the interesting groups if the traffic get too high.
It's only an example: never assume that all people are reading their news in
the same way as you do!
OK. Back to the main topic now. Let's have a RFD about the best way to
replace alt.games.doom and all the bogus subgroups by a new tree under
rec.games.id...
-Raphael
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