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- From: jgrape@coos.dartmouth.edu (Johan A. Grape)
- Newsgroups: misc.forsale.computers
- Subject: On the issue of splitting up
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.120944.8780@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 12:09:44 GMT
- Sender: news@dartvax.dartmouth.edu (The News Manager)
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- Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
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- Originator: jgrape@coos.dartmouth.edu
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- I have noticed lately that my kill file junks an
- extraordinary amount of instances of "Re:" in the
- subject header, so yesterday I sat down and read
- through a bunch of the junked messages...
-
- There's a huge discussion about splitting the newsgroup
- that I have been missing. I thought I'd add my vote to
- whoever is counting (which is probably no one).
-
- Don't split the group. The standardized headers are a nice
- idea. Someone can take care of posting a weekly misc.forsale
- .computers etiquette article that describes the standardized
- system. The cross-posting would be horrendous. If you don't
- believe me then subscribe to the entire set of comp.sys.sun
- newsgroups or comp.sys.mac or whatever. It would take 6
- months and we'd have across the board postings about splitting
- misc.forsale.ibm into subsections for monitors and whatever.
-
- Use your kill file. Junk every Re:, WANTED: or whatever.
- Search for strings if you are looking for something in particular
- It never takes me more than 5 minutes to determine what may
- be of interest and read it, and I'm just browsing.
-
- It's kind of sad how you have to post to say what you want
- when it is bad form to waste the bandwidth. It also adds
- to the ammunition of the "splitting advocates". Will
- we see splinter groups?
-
- Just my $.02 worth, and yes I'm sure lots of you rate it
- lower in value than that. I hope the "Followup: " works.
-
- Johan
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