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Re: Carrying rec.toys.lego on lugnet.com
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Thu, 7 Jan 1999 02:04:53 GMT
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mattdm@mattdm./NoMoreSpam/org
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Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote:
How might things actually play out if cross-posting between rec.toys.lego
and lugnet.* groups were allowed for people who've gone through the news-
posting setup?  (Obviously, it can't be allowed for people who have not gone

I can see maybe allowing cross-posting between rtl and lugnet.general (and
perhaps the marketplace groups?) but I think in general what'd happen is:
the threads would diverge into off-topicness, but'd be very very difficult
to redirect to the appropriate group because people would keep responding to
the thread on rtl.

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Matthew Miller                      --->                  mattdm@mattdm.org
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  Re: Carrying rec.toys.lego on lugnet.com
 
(...) Ooh. Hadn't thought of that one. :-( Good point! I'll bet that would happen too. All things considered, the only reasonable (workable) option might be simply to carry rec.toys.lego here but prevent any cross-posting, simply as a convenience (...) (26 years ago, 7-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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  Carrying rec.toys.lego on lugnet.com
 
(...) Interesting -- I see it the other way. Larry's statement reminds me of one of the disadvantages of carrying RTL here: a likely increase in fragmented replies from people cross-posting thread-starting-points and half of the replies showing up (...) (26 years ago, 7-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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