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- From: zeleny@husc10.harvard.edu (Michael Zeleny)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
- Subject: Re: Is the discussion over? (Was Re: *Any* kind of r.a.b split...)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.142242.18885@husc3.harvard.edu>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 19:22:40 GMT
- References: <1992Dec22.175831.28627@nevada.edu> <sph0301.131.725131826@utsph.sph.uth.tmc.edu> <1992Dec29.153326.14511@clpd.kodak.com>
- Organization: The Phallogocentric Cabal:
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- In article <1992Dec29.153326.14511@clpd.kodak.com>
- staffan@ca.serum.kodak.com (Kenneth Staffan (x37507)) writes:
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- A Defender of the Realm:
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- >>>I don't understand where these people come off. They enter a room and
- >>>decide that because they don't like it there, so the rest of us just have
- >>>to stop whatever we were doing and pick up what they want to do.
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- A Pretender:
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- >>EXCUSE ME?
- >> 'these people'? 'guests'? Who died and made you king?
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- KS:
- >This argument misses the point. Nobody is saying that anybody has to
- >stop what they are doing (or at least, not everyone is saying that :-).
- >The gist of the original posts (before it deteriorated into yet another
- >spat) was to suggest possible ways to improve the organization of the
- >r.a.b so that all could benefit. It's a high-volume newsgroup, and
- >people are just looking for ways to filter out what they do and don't
- >want to follow. Not everybody has hours to weed through tons of messages.
- >Kill files are only of marginal use - subject lines continually change,
- >and the kill parsing itself takes time, which is one of the problems in
- >the first place.
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- Have you considered taking your business elsewhere?
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- KS:
- >Don't pay any attention to these tangential arguments. Does anyone
- >else have constructive suggestions for organizing the group?
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- How about an immediate moratorium on organizational metadiscussions?
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- >Ken
- >---
- >staffan@serum.kodak.com
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- cordially,
- mikhail zeleny@husc.harvard.edu
- "Le cul des femmes est monotone comme l'esprit des hommes."
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