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Subject: 
Re: Friendly reminder about use of .general
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Date: 
Tue, 22 Mar 2005 13:40:10 GMT
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"Leonard Hoffman" <lenny.hoffman@lugnet.com> wrote in message
news:IDr98J.1A8r@lugnet.com...
In lugnet.admin.general, Joakim Olsson wrote:

snip

Hi, the use of .general for most of the announcements is a good thing • for me
using a news reader.

Although it may be useful for you in particular, it is specifically the • purpose
of the .announce heirarchy for announcements.  Use of .general for • announcements
is off-topic.

Hi, I was not referring to "announcements" only. Many discussions and
questions starts out in .general, with a followup.
Just look at your first message in this thread. I would not have noticed it
if you had posted it in .admin.general only. ;-)

Joakim, OUWO (Ordinary User With Opinion ;-),  #491



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(...) Although it may be useful for you in particular, it is specifically the purpose of the .announce heirarchy for announcements. Use of .general for announcements is off-topic. The decision to sub-divide Lugnet is a very old decision - one of the (...) (20 years ago, 22-Mar-05, to lugnet.admin.general)

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