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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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Tue, 10 Oct 2000 02:21:44 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.nntp, Tim Courtney writes:
> 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.
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> True.
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> > 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.
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> Now that is reasonable.
And also what I was hoping would happen/what I was referring to.
> > > 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.
Everyone is free to have their own ideas...After all, how boring would the
world be otherwise?
> 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?
My thought was that .general was for the initial announcement/info with the
threads following on in other, pre-existing, groups...maybe I'm being overly
optomistic, I don't know.
Benjamin Whytcross
bwhytcro@pacificaccess.com.au
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> -Tim
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