home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!utrcu1!infnews!kortink
- From: kortink@cs.utwente.nl (John Kortink)
- Subject: The split was bad anyway
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.105550.15750@cs.utwente.nl>
- Sender: usenet@cs.utwente.nl
- Nntp-Posting-Host: utis96
- Organization: University of Twente, Dept. of Computer Science
- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 10:55:50 GMT
- Lines: 36
-
- steve@acorn.co.uk (Steve "daffy" Hunt) writes :
-
- >I have noticed a number of crossposted articles on these groups
- >recently. I expected this when the split was proposed, which is why I
- >voted NO to it.
- >
- >Please don't crosspost between the comp.sys.acorn.* groups unless it
- >is REALLY necessary (almost never).
- >[...]
-
- I agree with this wholeheartedly. The split in itself is bloody
- annoying (doesn't everyone read *all* the groups anyway ?), and
- makes reading mail 4 times more laborious than it was. It's gets
- even worse when people cross-post mega-mails, only to be lugged
- around multiple times, unnecessarily.
-
- Could it be that 'NO' voters stayed away ? Or is the voting
- system unfair ? Was everyone who voted 'yes' just trying to
- be innovative instead of sensible ?
-
- The non-c.s.a. groups only get a one or two messages a day !
- Does this give people a hint ?
-
- Not out of want to criticize things all the way in this posting,
- but could people also *please* use quoting sensibly ? I still see
- messages carrying long parts of articles at the bottom, with no
- reaction following. This is pollution in the most profound sense
- of the word. Don't be so lazy, edit things out please, they are
- usually not read anyway !
-
- Hoping for better times.
-
- John Kortink
-
- Student of Informatics at the University of Twente, The Netherlands
- NETMAIL : kortink@cs.utwente.nl DISCLAIMER : the usual
-