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- From: carasso@Turing.ORG (Roger Carasso)
- Subject: Re: WATCH OUT! THAT GARTH POSTING IS LOADED!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.183546.21417@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 18:35:46 GMT
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- in rec.music.country.western
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- In article <8JAN199311075633@rover.uchicago.edu) frank@rover.uchicago.edu writes:
- ) Experienced netters learn, (some the hard way,) about followup bombs.
- ) New netters, however, (and all of us were new at one time...) can easily
- ) get burned. For any netter who does not understand what happens when
- ) somebody plays with their "Follow-up To" lines, here's what happens.
- )
- ) A/ A normal netter, Ken, posts a normal note. (Note that there is
- ) no Followup-to or X-ref line.)
- )
- ))From: Ken_Ziolkowski@transarc.com
- ))Newsgroups: rec.music.country.western
- ))Subject: KGARth in Pittsburgh???
- )
- )) I don't know if this is some sort of New Year's
- ))practical joke, but evidently a radio station in
- ))Pittsburgh has switched to an all Garth Brooks
- ))format.
- ).. (rest of post deleted)
- )
- ) B/ Then ... some bimbo named Roger posts a reply with cross-references
- ) to other news groups and followup's set to even more newsgroups
- ) (note the Xref: and Followup-to: lines in the following header)
- )
- ))Xref: uchinews rec.music.country.western:7227 talk.bizarre:77026
- ))Newsgroups: rec.music.country.western,talk.bizarre
- ))Path: uchinews!linac!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!
- )) wupost!udel!gatech!concert!uvaarpa!murdoch!Turing.ORG!carasso
- ))From: carasso@Turing.ORG (Roger Carasso)
- ))Subject: GARTH BROOKS 24 HOURS A DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- ))Followup-To: rec.music.country.western,misc.test,misc.jobs.offered,rec.pets,
- )) rec.arts.startrek.current,talk.bizarre
- ))Keywords: cows, pigs, boots, mules, mud, beer, trucks
- ).. (rest of post deleted)
- )
- ) C/ Then, anyone responding to this posting in rec.music.country.western
- ) automagically has their reply posted to all the other groups.
- )
- ) D/ Readers of misc.jobs, for instance, become very annoyed having to
- ) wade through 47 posts about Garth, while they are trying to find
- ) a job. They, understandably, flame back at the poster. Unfortunately,
- ) it takes some detective work to work backwards thru posts to find out
- ) who STARTED the whole storm. Also, new netters wonder why somebody
- ) from misc.jobs is griping about an article they thought they posted
- ) to rec.music.country.western.
- )
- ) E/ Users who have gotten burned retract their article, hoping to shut
- ) off further flames from irate netters. This causes more problems if
- ) the bimbo included misc.test in the reply to, because the cancel
- ) message will also go to many newsservers, resulting in a flurry of
- ) e-mail messages to your account telling you "your test posting has
- ) been received at blah-blah-blah".
- )
- )I leave it as an exercise to the net reader to figure out an appropriate
- )remedy to apply to the bimbos who cause these storms.
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- PRAISE?
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-
- ...carasso:)
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