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Re: Crosspost Spamming (Was: Re: Blue Hopper Car Mania...)
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lugnet.admin.general
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Fri, 19 Nov 1999 00:23:47 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Mike Stanley writes:
> I'd like to say I'll promise each and every time I respond to
> something to make sure that some random group isn't in the
> followups, but the reality is I won't, nor will anyone else.
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> So will I look at messages, especially in this thread, and try to
> not send them out to the wrong groups (or more correctly, respond to
> a message that is already in several groups, some of them wrong)?
> Sure I will. Will I make it my mission in life to doublecheck every
> single message I respond to in order to make sure it goes to the
> right place? No, and I shouldn't have to - that's what the
> reader and/or server software is for.
Yep - the point of bringing the issue up was not to point fingers or say "This
person is to blame, aren't they naughty", but rather to see if there is a way
that the problem can be tackled - either by increasing peoples awareness of it,
or making changes to the web-interface!
Richard
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