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Subject:	Re: Suggested Change in Charter for ALL Lugnet Theme Groups.
Newsgroups:	lugnet.admin.general
Date:	Tue, 7 Mar 2000 15:44:14 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Fredrik Glöckner writes: > Steve Bliss <blisses@worldnet.att.net> writes: > > > This would be a Bad Thing. Quite possibly a Very Bad Thing. > > I agree. But this is probably needless to say: As far as I can tell, > the philosophy of LUGNET has been to separate between discussions and > commerce from day one on. Which is why these the anouncments would be _very_ easy to filter out. > We wouldn't want the discussion groups to > be as noisy as RTL is now, would we? This is very much a "chicken & egg" debate. > > Fredrik

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		Re: Suggested Change in Charter for ALL Lugnet Theme Groups.
(...) But if they are not in at all, they don't have to be filtered out. If the theme-name would be included in the posts in market.auction they are very easy to find there with the search function for newsgroups and then there would be no (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

		Re: Suggested Change in Charter for ALL Lugnet Theme Groups.
(...) Scott, you're dreaming. It's not gonna happen. Forget it. At this point, you're just wasting my time, other people's time, and you're attempting to subvert one of the most sacred core principles of this site. --Todd (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

		Re: Suggested Change in Charter for ALL Lugnet Theme Groups.
(...) You've used this "chicken & egg" response twice (at least), so I'm responding to it. RTL came first. This is a fact. Part of the reason Lugnet is structured the way it is, is in response to what happened to RTL. In particular the commercial (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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		Re: Suggested Change in Charter for ALL Lugnet Theme Groups.
(...) I agree. But this is probably needless to say: As far as I can tell, the philosophy of LUGNET has been to separate between discussions and commerce from day one on. We wouldn't want the discussion groups to be as noisy as RTL is now, would we? (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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