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Re: FUT, FUT, FUT....
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lugnet.admin.general
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Thu, 25 May 2000 15:42:58 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Matthew Miller writes:
> Anders Isaksson <isaksson.etuna@REMOVEebox.tninet.se> wrote:
> > You're missing the point: the *thread* is still interesting, *the other
> > group* is not (generally) interesting, time is limited, modem is slow,
> > budget is limited.
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> Perhaps I am. What makes a thread about digital cameras that started in
> .publish less interesting than a thread with identical content that began in
> .castle?
They're never going to be identical.
Take off your "fast internet access, too cheap to meter" blinders for a while
and try to think through the perspective of someone from Europe or elsewhere
who has to pay by the second or by the byte and who can't afford to follow
everything.
Perhaps that person is more interested in threads that started in groups he's
interested in (even if you think they're "identical") than in ones that didn't.
FUT is a good thing, used judiciously. Of late around here, it has been used
indiscriminately, which is the point of this thread, in case you missed that.
++Lar
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| (...) I'm thinking of it that way. If a thread wandered way off topic in a group I was downloading, I'd want it to move to the proper place so I don't have to waste time wading through it. Conversely, I'd want everything interesting on a certain (...) (24 years ago, 25-May-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Perhaps I am. What makes a thread about digital cameras that started in .publish less interesting than a thread with identical content that began in .castle? (24 years ago, 24-May-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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