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Re: What has caused .announce to drift?
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lugnet.admin.general
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Fri, 3 Sep 1999 12:03:22 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net> writes:
> If you called it "newsflash" perhaps it would carry the "it should be
> newsworthy" connotation that "news" does *without* the connotation that
> it is somehow related to newsreaders and nntp.
Ahh..."newsflash"...good word!
> Ignoring the charter (which everyone seems to be doing.. Doesn't make it
> RIGHT! :-) ) Announce to me carries the connotation of something *I*
> want you to know about, not necessarily something newsworthy.
Yeah, I suppose I agree. Given what .announce means all over Usenet, it's
the charter that's broken, not the name. It really doesn't work as a
dual-purpose group.
--Todd
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| If you called it "newsflash" perhaps it would carry the "it should be newsworthy" connotation that "news" does *without* the connotation that it is somehow related to newsreaders and nntp. Ignoring the charter (which everyone seems to be doing.. (...) (25 years ago, 3-Sep-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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