 | | Re: lugnet.dev.null or somesuch —Todd Lehman
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| | | (...) How different is .off-topic.debate from that already? How many net-savvy people who wanted to post a real reply would simply change the ng line prior to posting? What would newbies think when they posted a reply not knowing where they reply (...) (24 years ago, 24-Jul-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | Re: lugnet.dev.null or somesuch —Matthew Miller
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| | | | | (...) Well, there's precedent in alt.dev.null [1]. But really, I can't think of very many things that couldn't either go to one of the .off-topic groups (not just .debate!) or just be left unsaid. [1] what fun! (24 years ago, 24-Jul-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | Re: lugnet.dev.null or somesuch —Frank Filz
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| | | | | (...) I would expect a net-savvy person to be posting something which actually was worthwhile, and to chose an appropriate group. The concern of mine which brought this up is the recent tendency for discussions to get crossposted to a bunch of (...) (24 years ago, 24-Jul-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | Re: lugnet.dev.null or somesuch —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | (...) Than a trashbin? Well, quite a bit different I would hope, at least the participants would like to think so. What are you trying to say here? (...) I'm net savvy and I forget somewhere between 10 and 25 percent of the time. Setting followups (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jul-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | Re: lugnet.dev.null or somesuch —Todd Lehman
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| | | | (...) Undo. :) I was thinking of all the times on Usenet that I'd seen "followups to alt.dev.null" or "followups to /dev/null" used when someone made a flame or quip or other flippant statement and wanted to deflect replies to avoid a big debate or (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jul-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | Re: lugnet.dev.null or somesuch —Frank Filz
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| | | | (...) I'm trying to set followups on this one to junk. I don't think Netscape will let me post it though... Nope, didn't work. (...) Ok, let's try "poster" (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jul-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | Re: lugnet.dev.null or somesuch —Frank Filz
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| | | | | (...) Ok, that worked. That would keep people from replying using the web interface (from Netscape, it brings up a compose window, and then I need to manually show the newsgroups field and clear the e-mail). (24 years ago, 25-Jul-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | Re: lugnet.dev.null or somesuch —Matthew Miller
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| | | | (...) Yeah, already tried that. I think it's actually the server rejecting the post. (...) Works, but slrn (at least) gives me the choice of ignoring your preference. ("Send me replies directly" is often considered tacky. There's situations where (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jul-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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