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Subject: 
Re: Cleaning up the main homepage
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Thu, 9 Mar 2000 16:57:50 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Jeremy H. Sproat writes:
If the .off-topic.* and .admin.* messages are unpalatable for "commoners",
then perhaps they shouldn't've have been invited here.

"They" == the messages, not the "commoners".  The more people, the merrier.

"Commoners" is such a yucky term also.  How about "newbies".  Or am I just
being elitist?

Cheers,
- jsproat



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  Re: Cleaning up the main homepage
 
(...) Ah. I see. Hmm. Well, the .debate group doesn't really exist to "invite" debates but rather to have a place to deflect them to, because they always seem to come up in any sufficiently large online newsgroup or mailing list situation. OTOH, (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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  Re: Cleaning up the main homepage
 
(...) Um, ditto. :-, (...) But I'm not so sure if these will work, at least not on a scale that affects everyone. In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes: (...) If the .off-topic.* and .admin.* messages are unpalatable for "commoners", then (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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