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- Path: sparky!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!wupost!waikato.ac.nz!mcg
- From: mcg@waikato.ac.nz
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: The split was bad anyway
- Message-ID: <1992Sep4.191353.10620@waikato.ac.nz>
- Date: 4 Sep 92 19:13:53 +1200
- References: <1992Sep3.105550.15750@cs.utwente.nl>
- Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
- Lines: 34
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- In article <1992Sep3.105550.15750@cs.utwente.nl>, 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.
- >>
- >>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.
-
-
- I disagree.... the majority have deemed the split necessary (and I for one
- agree, although I missed the voting), so suffer and stop moaning.... it's here
- to stay.
-
-
- From Martin Glanvill (mcg@waikato.ac.nz)
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