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Re: New Policy on Bickering in LUGNET Newsgroups
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lugnet.admin.terms, lugnet.loc.au
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lugnet.admin.terms
Date: 
Sat, 15 Jun 2002 02:51:35 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.terms, Benjamin Whytcross writes:

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.]

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.

Hope that helps.

trimmed loc.au from the FUT.



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  Re: New Policy on Bickering in LUGNET Newsgroups
 
(...) 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 (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jun-02, to lugnet.admin.terms)

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  Re: New Policy on Bickering in LUGNET Newsgroups
 
(...) Just a minor query on this...will this new policy prevent people in their .loc.??? groups posting messages using what is considered normal language in their own countries, but that others in different countries may not appreciate, or will it (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jun-02, to lugnet.admin.terms, lugnet.loc.au)

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