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Re: The name/purpose of the QOTD group
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lugnet.admin.general
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Wed, 5 May 1999 00:37:51 GMT
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cjc@STOPSPAMnewsguy.com
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Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote:
> understood how people might perceive it. It seems that no matter how it's
> described in its charter, people somehow still infer that it's for posting
> quotes. But it's NOT a quotes group. Here's the jist behind the group --
> (this is a crummy name but it gets the idea across):
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> lugnet.off-topic.quotes.heard-within-lugnet
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> Now, of course, "heard" really means "seen written" rather than "heard," but
> this is the basic idea: Someone says something funny or ridiculous or silly
> or profound in some random group here, and someone else posts a follow-up to
> that message, directing it into the .qotd group for general consumption.
> It's like a whiteboard where you write funny things someone says at lunch or
> during a meeting or wherever. But it's -not- for posting quips or a maxims
> or proverbs or lists of quotes from outside places -- not like that at all.
>
> Thoughts? Is this group, by its very name, no matter how carefully worded
> in the charter, doomed and destined to being destroyed and recreated under a
> different name, or not at all? Once something like this gets going (if it
> does), these sorts of community QOTD resources can be quite a lot of fun.
Well, I keep thinking of all the QOTD utilities that I've run under
DOS, Windows, Linux, etc that basically generate quotes of the type
people seem to want to post to this group.
Many of them even used qotd as the executable name, so I think you're
going to have to deal with people doing that.
For my part, having not paid much attention to the discussion about
this group before now, I'll probably unsubscribe. I really have no
interest in reading things that were either posted in groups I already
read or in groups that I don't read.
I would, however, read random quote posts. I'm just that kind of guy.
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| (...) Kind of like the 'fortune' program then? (...) Aha. OK. Uh oh. :-} (...) I probably would too (if they were semi-original), but there are already *so* many places out on the net that collect and disseminate quotes. For example, LEGO-fan Matt (...) (26 years ago, 5-May-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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