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- From: morgan@engr.uky.edu (Wes Morgan)
- Subject: [NOT A REPOST] Re: [news.sysadmin, et al.] Re: a.b.p.e. distribution
- References: <BxGvt5.n19@cs.uiuc.edu>
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.81210.8239@ms.uky.edu>
- Organization: University of Kentucky Engineering Computing Center
- Sender: morgan@ms.uky.edu (Wes Morgan)
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 13:12:10 GMT
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- [ All newsgroups deleted except alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk -- Wes ]
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- kadie@cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie) wrote:
- >[A repost - Carl]
-
- Yup, and quite a few of them at that........
-
- Please, please, PLEASE, can't you just say "there's an interesting discussion
- over in news.sysadmin; check it out"??!!
-
- It gets rather annoying to see articles two and three times, thanks to
- such reposting; I'd say that 'spreading the discussion' in this fashion
- actually performs a disservice, given readers' propensity for chopping
- Newsgroups lines.....
-
- It's also rather annoying to see only a few articles in a thread; we then
- almost always have to go searching for its conclusion elsewhere. This is
- another reason to provide pointers to discussion (instead of reposts of
- discussion). This has the added benefit of concentrating the discussion
- (as best we can) in the original group; our opinions will reach more people,
- and we'll all become widely-respected, honored net.legends. 8)
-
- Seriously, though, I'd like to think that the majority of readers are able
- to find their way to news.sysadmin; it isn't that difficult, and most sites
- carry it. (In this case, more sites carry news.sysadmin than carry alt.comp.
- acad-freedom.talk, but we're reposting to the smaller group with the poorer
- distribution!)
-
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