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Re: Incorrect group posting [was RE: cartoonnetwork.com is having an online contest]
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lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.nntp
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lugnet.admin.nntp
Date: 
Tue, 10 Oct 2000 03:37:37 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Frank Filz writes:
> [...]
> Actually, one thing I suggested last year might be good to put in place real
> soon would be a lugnet.new.2001 or somesuch for all the discussion of the
> 2001 sets when they are first available to be seen in a catalog, and later
> when they actually come out (which tends to swamp .general for several
> weeks). I feel that such a set of newsgroups would significantly reduce
> clutter in .general, and make an easy place for someone who shows up late
> in a year to find out what everyone thinks of the sets currently on the
> shelves, or to ignore such if they desire (it might be nice for example to
> be able to exclude that discussion from news searches).

I still think this is a great idea.  I would put them under .year.#### though.

--Todd



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  Re: Incorrect group posting [was RE: cartoonnetwork.com is having an online contest]
 
(...) That sounds like the definition for lugnet.announce (which does indeed force you to set followups). My impression is that lugnet.general is for discussions which don't have a better newsgroup (or set of newsgroups) to be discussed in. I think (...) (26 years ago, 10-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us, lugnet.admin.general)

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