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(...) This came up once before. Inasmuch as off-topic threads flare up from time to time and clog the overall stream of messages for a few hours, they _are_ part of the community, and to hide them from the top level of the group hierarchy would be (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Please, just end the entire thing! ( was: Re: Does God have a monopoly on gods?)
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(...) Is it me, or is there an inordinately large number of people complaining about on-topic discussion in the .off-topic.* groups today? There certainly might be *some* confusion when a newcomer sees four non-Lego messages on the front page. But (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Please, just end the entire thing! ( was: Re: Does God have a monopoly on gods?)
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(...) We never left it. Fridays are (IIRC) typically slow days for traffic on Lugnet, for a bunch of reasons. Today, that low volume is combined with a fast-paced debate (not the first, won't be the last), so it looks a bit weird on the stats, but (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.general)
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| | Reminder: the .off-topic.* groups ARE for off-topic topics
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(...) As far as I'm aware, all of the religious debate messages are all properly placed in the .off-topic.debate group (with a couple spinoff sub-threads in the .admin.general group)... Just set your newsreader not to download the .off-topic.debate (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Please, just end the entire thing! ( was: Re: Does God have a monopoly on gods?)
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(...) I don't want you to either. I was speaking against the requests, not against you doing it. I happen to like your stance on that issue. Ben Roller (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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