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Re: CFD: lugnet.announce
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Mon, 12 Oct 1998 17:42:36 GMT
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MATTDM@saynotospamMATTDM.ORG
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Paul Gyugyi <paul@gyugyi.com> wrote:
Agreed!  It has been my experience that *.announce groups
are low-volume, moderated groups with almost no "discussion"
going on, and that's why I subscribe to them.

Todd, I'd agree that this is generally a normal assumption. But I still see
the use for a general announcement group, and lugnet.announce sure seems
like the intuitive name for that too.

How about making lugnet.announce such that "Followup-To" must be set to
another group?

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Matthew Miller                      --->                  mattdm@mattdm.org
Quotes 'R' Us                       --->             http://quotes-r-us.org/



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  Re: CFD: lugnet.announce
 
(...) I like that. I bet it would go a long ways toward keeping newbies from posting non-announcements there too. Probably pretty easy to add to the injection stuff. Sounds like a good second thing to try before resorting to more stuff. (The first (...) (26 years ago, 12-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)

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  Re: CFD: lugnet.announce
 
(...) Agreed! It has been my experience that *.announce groups are low-volume, moderated groups with almost no "discussion" going on, and that's why I subscribe to them. -gyug (26 years ago, 12-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)

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