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- From: J.W.Harley@newcastle.ac.uk (Jon Harley)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: The split was bad anyway
- Message-ID: <Bu0G3L.1pF@newcastle.ac.uk>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 16:21:21 GMT
- References: <1992Sep3.105550.15750@cs.utwente.nl>
- Organization: University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, NE1 7RU
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- kortink@cs.utwente.nl (John Kortink) writes:
- >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.
- >>[...]
- >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.
-
- I agree too, on principle, though in practice a decent newsreader only
- shows you a crossposted article once.
-
- >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 ?
-
- I never saw *any* discussion of the split in comp.sys.acorn; whether
- they didn't make it to my site, or whether they were in some unrelated
- thread that I didn't read, I don't know. I didn't know about the split
- until it happened. How much discussion was there anyway?
-
-
- //jon
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