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Re: While we're on a kick of appropriate posting...
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lugnet.admin.general
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Sun, 27 Jan 2002 20:28:56 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Frank Filz writes:
> Is anyone else as bothered by me about lugnet.general appearing to be
> used as a "I'm not a Compartmentalized Dork so I'm going to not use
> appropriate newsgroups" place? We've got a raging discussion about use
> of "bay" going on, plus just so many other things.
Or is that (now moved...again) thread of "general" interest to the community
at large?
A lot like the .announce argument (now mostly solved), .general reaches a
broad audience, and is a good starting place to get to a large number of
folks and get the talk ball rolling, usually to move off into an appropriate
group as the subject solidifies.
> What I would personally prefer to see lugnet.general used for (and the
> admins and community are free to ignore my opinions of course) is along
> the lines of the following:
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> - discussion of things which just don't have another group (which isn't
> many).
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> - posting of things with very wide appeal (crosspost to the most
> appropriate group or two plus general, rather than cross posting to 20
> different groups).
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> Outside of the item with very wide appeal, it doesn't seem to me like
> lugnet.general should ever be cross posted to.
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> Just a thought of mine.
I think that that's pretty much how the group works now...I don't think it's
broken, myself.
Matt
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