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Re: Cleaning up the main homepage
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lugnet.admin.general
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Date:
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Thu, 9 Mar 2000 22:30:57 GMT
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Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message
news:Fr6974.KAB@lugnet.com...
> In lugnet.admin.general, Scott Arthur writes:
> > > I'd like it best if people could personalise and exchange their own
> > > automatic bowdlerizers, and am working toward this.
> >
> > I suggested self bowdlerisation earlier this week, and was shouted down.
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> Are we on the same page?
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> Yes, you suggested something involving bowdlerisation, but what you • suggested
> was that auctions
Pre-auction anouncments
> be allowed in theme discussion groups and subsequently that
> everyone reading those discussion groups be required to self-bowdlerise to
> remove the unwanted noise. (Correct me if I'm wrong, but that's what I
heard!)
I said fitering would be easy. I also said filtering, via a prefercences,
_could_ be a option. But that is history now.
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> Requiring people to self-bowdlerise
I'd argue users do it already.
> is very different from giving them the
> voluntary option to self-bowdlerise. It is infinitely more practical to
> restrict auction noise to an auction-specific group and let people filter
> out that noise as a whole, than it is to allow auction noise in regular
> discussion groups and ask people to come up with countermeasures for every
> conceivable measure and counter-counter-measure that auctioneers will
devise.
This is not an issue for me anymore.
Scott A
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> --Todd
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