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Re: Incorrect group posting [was RE: cartoonnetwork.com is having an online contest]
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lugnet.admin.nntp
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Mon, 9 Oct 2000 05:02:54 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> In lugnet.general, Tim Courtney writes:
> The U.S. may be a big place, but something local to the U.S. is still local,
> even if 85% of readers today happen to live in the U.S.
True.
> However, since this contest apparently is Some Big Thing and other people
> might wanna follow along, there's nothing too bad about crossposting the
> announcement of it to .general and setting followups to .loc.us.
Now that is reasonable.
> > I'm certainly tired of hearing whining like this, [...]
>
> I happen to think he's right! I think people use .general a bit too often
> for stuff that's US-only. If I lived outside the US, it would really bother
> the living snot out of me.
He might be right - I was more venting cause I've read enough of this. It
bothers the living snot out of US residents who can't get Euro only sets
easily...(and that one's old too). Guess its just me - I won't apologize for
the way I feel about it, but I can acknowledge that its just me getting
annoyed.
What's a good balance for the use of .general? Should there be a general.us,
general.eu, general.au...etc?? Would that be a natural extension of a general
interest group, while accomodating specific localities and preventing
bothering the collective snot out of people? Would that all appropriately
fall under loc, or is loc more events-specific, and general something that
would work too?
-Tim
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