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Re: Pruning not good for the trees
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Tue, 8 Aug 2000 03:46:31 GMT
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Larry Pieniazek <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote:
Needs to be done in such a way that nothing remains of the post itself at
all except the anchors so it's clear that no editorial control was being
done, it was just a nuke.

I'm pretty sure removing things like this is editorial control, wholesale or
not.

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  Re: Pruning not good for the trees
 
(...) Prolly. But removing the whole thing is "less" control than excising words but leaving the rest. Or so I seem to recall Prodigy's lawyer telling me about 15 years ago when I first started looking into this topic. And "less" control, especially (...) (24 years ago, 8-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
  Re: Pruning not good for the trees
 
(...) This is so far from editorial control that light from editorial control takes ten million years just to reach here. The reaons were purely _legal_ and by specific request from TLC. Editorial control would be if TLC requested removal of, say, (...) (24 years ago, 8-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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  Pruning not good for the trees
 
I just went and looked at the 2001 set info tree and with all the cancels, that tree is dust. The tree view for me showed a bunch of disconnected posts with no hierarchy at all. Is that an inevitable outcome of wholesale cancellation or is there a (...) (24 years ago, 8-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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