Amy Hughes wrote in message ... (...) Announcing in lots of newsgroups is not so much the problem (sometimes it's appropriate), it's the followups. If you notice, the Town building contest was announced in LOTS of newsgroups - but with FUT set to (...) (24 years ago, 6-Jan-01, to lugnet.build)
(...) Totally agree. I think we discussed this recently in admin.general, and the consensus is that once the initial post has followups set incorrectly it is very VERY tough to fix later because every single person has to realise there is a problem, (...) (24 years ago, 6-Jan-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.admin.general)