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Subject:	Re: Incorrect group posting [was RE: cartoonnetwork.com is having an online contest]
Newsgroups:	lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general
Date:	Mon, 9 Oct 2000 06:52:38 GMT
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> > I'm certainly tired of hearing whining like this, and half feel like • chipping > into Larry's idea to ignore users on the web interface. Perhaps you could > take your crusade to loc.au, because it certainly has no interest for • people > outside Australia. I know what you mean...the purpose of multiple newsgroups is to make it *easier* for people to read what they want, not to divide things up so much that you have to scour 74 different newsgroups to figure out where a post on a "US-Canada Lego club meeting for selling and/or auctioning space lego" might belong. Heaven forbid we use the word "auction" in lugnet.general (whoops, just used it twice). Just my opinion regarding Todd's fine Lego service. Paul Davidson

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		Re: Incorrect group posting [was RE: cartoonnetwork.com is having an online contest]
(...) Hmm, now that's an interesting hypothetical post. By current rules, it would seem that such a post should not be placed outside of lugnet.market.auction or lugnet.org.au (currently the only two groups I'm aware of which specifically welcome (...) (24 years ago, 10-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)

		Re: Incorrect group posting [was RE: cartoonnetwork.com is having an online contest]
Paul Davidson wrote in message ... (...) on (...) Ha! Try using a newsreader application instead of the web interface, and that's EXACTLY what one has to do with the threads being FUT'ed all over the place! It's frustrating at times, how so little (...) (24 years ago, 14-Nov-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)

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		Re: Incorrect group posting [was RE: cartoonnetwork.com is having an online contest]
(...) Oh geez. (...) I suppose a US LUG couldn't post pictures of their meeting for people from all over to see in a non US-specific group, then, right? Simply on the basis that some people from other countries couldn't make it to the meeting. Get (...) (24 years ago, 9-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us, lugnet.admin.general)

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