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Subject: 
Re: Announcing new Legend!
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.lego, lugnet.admin.nntp
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lugnet.admin.nntp
Date: 
Mon, 10 May 2004 13:34:17 GMT
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In lugnet.lego, Marc Nelson, Jr. wrote:

   I’m not sure how anything can be off-topic for .general, considering things like “rumors, musings, weird dreams” are on-topic.

General is two things, in my view... (1)
  1. a place for initial announcements of general interest (which should have FUT set elsewhere, the same way .announce posts do)
  2. and a place to discuss things that don’t have anywhere else to go.
If a different group has a topic explicitly *in* its charter, then it’s off topic for .general, in my view.

if you want to pursue this further, please note the FUT

1 - my view, and in current practice for the most part, but not necessarily per the header of .general, or per the ToS... those could stand updating to reflect current practice, I think.



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  Re: Announcing new Legend!
 
(...) I'm not sure how anything can be off-topic for .general, considering things like "rumors, musings, weird dreams" are on-topic. But without getting bogged down in what should be posted where... Greg's original point was that he didn't like the (...) (21 years ago, 10-May-04, to lugnet.lego, FTX)

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