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Re: New Policy on Bickering in LUGNET Newsgroups
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lugnet.admin.terms
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Sat, 15 Jun 2002 03:30:04 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.terms, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> In lugnet.admin.terms, Benjamin Whytcross writes:
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> > ALSO, will this be targetting those people who post sale information in
> > .general/.marketplace.??? who don't include country information relevent to
> > the sale when it is not available/open to anyone around the world? [this is
> > certainly, if not un-helpful information, then certainly pruposefully
> > excluding helpful information.]
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> While it's true that omitting locale from sale information is a practice to
> be discouraged, I'm not sure it fits the intended definition of "unhelpful
> posts" that was given. At least not in my view it doesn't. It's hard to see
> how someone inadvertantly omitting that information from their post is doing
> it in order to cause difficulty.
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> Hope that helps.
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> trimmed loc.au from the FUT.
This area of my query was in relation to it occuring repeatedly by the same
person...once is OK, twice: maybe they need to be informed that this sort of
information is needed, and if they do it a third time, maybe time-out isn't
such a bad idea?
Just my thoughts,
Benjamin Whytcross
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Message has 1 Reply:
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| (...) That seems a bit heavy-handed. Omitting information that is useful or helpful or necessary to others is annoying, but not subject to any negative action, IMO. I don't like posts that only give me half the story or omit crucial details any more (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jun-02, to lugnet.admin.terms)
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