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Re: defining proper content
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lugnet.admin.general
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Tue, 15 Aug 2000 21:03:46 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Scott Arthur writes:
> In lugnet.admin.general, Matthew Miller writes:
> > Compared to Usenet, it's a pretty friendly place, actually. I'm not saying
> > that it couldn't be better, of course.
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> Other than RTL, all the other newsgroups I read are work related, but they
> are all fine. LUGNET is the only one with agro I read. Although, I did used
> to be on a Ian Banks mailing list thing, and that was pretty bad.
What is "agro"?
> I often wonder if LUGNET was always like this and I have just noticed it,
> or if it is a recent change??
FWIW, I haven't noticed any recent changes -- other than the usual flare-ups
of debates that happen from time to time. Sometimes they seem like changes
because they take things by storm, but they've been here since day 1 (or maybe
day 10) -- and some much worse (noticable) than this most recent one. The
biggest noticable thing here perhaps is that it is taking place in a themed
newsgroup (.starwars), which IIRC hasn't happened since the debate in
.adventurers about a year ago.
When it moves to .off-topic.debate, all will seem normal again, as the .debate
area is set up as a sort of "loud quiet-corner" where people can let off steam
and work through things. The .off-topic.debate area exists so that people can
say "hey, take this over to .off-topic.debate" without having to ask someone
to stop discussing something altogther (which, due to human nature, rarely
works anyway and usually just makes matters worse).
--Todd
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| If you used to watch a certain morning channel until some time ago, Agro was the co-host and puppet on a TV show which ran cartoons with this puppet and his sidekick/volunteer from the audience joining in. Somewhat wild in places, goofy in others, (...) (24 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Other than RTL, all the other newsgroups I read are work related, but they are all fine. LUGNET is the only one with agro I read. Although, I did used to be on a Ian Banks mailing list thing, and that was pretty bad. I often wonder if LUGNET (...) (24 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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