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- From: leonard@mimsy.umd.edu (Leonard Dickens)
- Newsgroups: news.groups
- Subject: Re: RFD: rec.games.netrek reorganization
- Message-ID: <62220@mimsy.umd.edu>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 19:05:49 GMT
- References: <62177@mimsy.umd.edu> <1992Nov19.075540.12629@alijku05.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at> <Bxz4s5.IsE.2@cs.cmu.edu>
- Organization: Deep Thirteen, Gizmonics Institute
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- Jonathan Hardwick writes:
- >Idiots are idiots. Even *with* r.g.n.announce, we'd still have had a
- >bunch of people on r.g.n saying "what's RSA?". r.g.n.announce would
- >be a good way for people with very little time to keep up-to-date on
- >new servers, new clients, etc, but it wouldn't do much to cut down on
- >the number of people who ask dumb questions on r.g.n.
-
- This is true to a degree. Some people will post questions as soon as
- the questions occur to them. Such is life. If I could vote against
- idiots, I would.
-
- Still, I think that if r.g.n.announce posts stayed around longer than
- r.g.n posts and most people were subscribed to both, at least you
- would avoid this sort of post from people who merely have very short
- expire times on their local news. With an "unimportant" group like
- r.g.n, I bet the average time news stays around on most systems is
- pretty short.
-
- Again: many of these posts are NOT generated by idiots; merely people
- that are not as well blessed with spare disk space as the rest of us.
-
- So would you vote for the idea of a r.g.n.announce or not? Howzabout
- r.g.n.programmer (unmoderated)?
-
- -Leonard
-