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Re: All UK Groups subscribed?
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lugnet.loc.uk
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Wed, 12 May 1999 20:40:36 GMT
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Todd Lehman wrote:
> Please do not spam all the UK groups with a message like this. Anyone who
> cares will easily figure out that the bulk of the UK traffic is happening
> in the loc.uk group, and if they choose to post there, that's fine. But I
> don't want people to be discouraged from ever using the smaller groups.
1) It's not SPAM - that's unsolicited commercial e-mail, this has no
monetary value whatsoever.
2) I don't want newbies going to local groups seeing that no-one posts
there and therefore thinking that there is no UK LEGO Community and not
using the local groups. I had to wait for over a week for a reply in
another local group. Also lugnet.loc.uk.en has a stack of posts in
there and people think it's an active group and try to start a new
thread which then is started there and people miss out - I think my post
should be posted there if not all the UK groups.
3) Why is there 83 UK groups anyway? Look at the size of the
country!! Look at the size of Canada - it's got 32 groups. I reckon we
should have one group per county instead.
> Besides, pretty soon from the web you'll be able to browse a whole combined
> hierarchy at once (meaning all the messages in a group and in all of its
> subgroups).
That would be a good idea but doesn't work well from NNTP.
> If you want to let people know that most people have decided to congregate
> in a single UK group, just post that to the main UK group and anyone who
> cares will see it. If anyone is reading only a smaller group and not the
> main group, they are insane.
Yeah but the UK does have insane people so they might miss out on the a
message in lugnet.loc.uk telling them to post to lugnet.loc.uk
--
Carbon 60
ICQ # 5643170
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Message has 4 Replies:
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| (...) How does this look to those who subscribe via E-mail? With all of the posts that Richard did, I would consider this as SPAM especially as I watch it fill up my inbox. (...) I think that is best left to Todd, since he is head honcho around (...) (26 years ago, 12-May-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
| | | Re: All UK Groups subscribed?
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| (...) Spam doesn't have to be commercial to be spam. In Usenet, what Richard did is a particular type of spam known as "excessive multiposting" (although I haven't looked yet to see whether it was a single crossposted message or the same message (...) (26 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.admin.general)
| | | Re: All UK Groups subscribed?
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| (...) [Pardon me for the apparent harsh tone -- it's not actually harsh -- what follows is a very serious question, not a wise-crack...] How could someone possibly find a tiny local group and manage to post to it, yet not realise that there is a (...) (26 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.admin.general)
| | | Re: All UK Groups subscribed?
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| (...) It certainly is spam. It does NOT have to be commercial in nature in order to be spam. In fact, back when I played on the MU*, we would call ourselves "spammed" when we were listening to two different places through two different puppets, and (...) (26 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| (...) Please do not spam all the UK groups with a message like this. Anyone who cares will easily figure out that the bulk of the UK traffic is happening in the loc.uk group, and if they choose to post there, that's fine. But I don't want people to (...) (26 years ago, 12-May-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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