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Re: Should RTL be hosted on this server?
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lugnet.general
Date: 
Mon, 30 Nov 1998 19:35:01 GMT
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mattdm@mattdm.SPAMLESSorg
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Mike Stanley <cjc@NOSPAMnewsguy.com> wrote:
discussions to another group, but that might be bordering on the kind
of moderation Todd has to avoid for legal reasons.  Maybe he could
appoint other people to be topic police to further distance it and
make it semi-ok, who knows.

Hey, I'M the topic police.

No, seriously -- if a thread is getting out of hand and off-topic, a gentle
reminder, or several, with followup-to set, should be sufficient. I don't see
a need to retroactively relocate articles.

--
Matthew Miller                      --->                  mattdm@mattdm.org
Quotes 'R' Us                       --->             http://quotes-r-us.org/



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  Re: Should RTL be hosted on this server?
 
(...) Not that necessarily advocating the practice of moving existing messages, but it does help keep the thread intact. Which helps readers follow what's going on. It also _strongly_ encourages new followups to go where the T.P. want them to go. (...) (26 years ago, 30-Nov-98, to lugnet.general)

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  Re: Should RTL be hosted on this server?
 
(...) That may be true. What is also true, though, is that there are specific groups here for discussing specific things. So if a nasty discussion begins those people can always be encouraged to move it to off-topic.debate and keep it out of the (...) (26 years ago, 30-Nov-98, to lugnet.general)

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