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Re: All UK Groups subscribed?
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lugnet.loc.uk
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Wed, 12 May 1999 22:32:31 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> In lugnet.loc.uk, Richard Dee writes:
> > On Tue, 11 May 1999 22:31:40 GMT, Carbon 60 uttered the following
> > profundities...
> > > Who's got all the loc.uk.* groups subscribed?
> > > If so would it be possible to send a message to all of them like this:
> > > [...]
> > > I would do this myself but Netscape News is really unstable at the
> > > moment.
> >
> > I am. I will. Though there are and have been no messages for
> > weeks.
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> Richard & Simon,
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> Please do not do this; please do not spam all the UK groups with a message
> like this -- there are too many loc.uk.* groups (83) for this to be a
> reasonable solution.
>
> Anyone who cares to know will either easily figure out all by themselves
> that the bulk of the UK traffic is happening in the .loc.uk group, or they
> can see your message in the .loc.uk group itself. If they choose to take
> heed of your suggestion and post there exclusively, that's fine. But I
> don't people to be discouraged from ever using the smaller groups.
>
> 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), and on top of that, everyone will be able to find any given group
> far easier.
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> So if you want to let people know that most people have decided to congregate
> in a single UK group, please only post your message to the main UK group. If
> anyone is reading only a smaller UK subgroup and not the main UK group, then
> they are probably insane and won't be able to find the UK group anyway.
>
> --Todd
OK, this post obviously wasn't heeded. >-( I was patient enough to see that
Richard did apologize for doing this though. His neck is in Todd's hands
now, so I'll let Todd deal with him. However, is there any way to clean up
the traffic page in the mean time for those of us who don't browse the UK
groups?
Duane
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Message has 3 Replies:
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| (...) No (sorry) the best I can do is to delete all of the spammed messages, but I can't reset the article counts in the ng's or else it will screw up peoples' newsreader counts. --Todd (26 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
| | | Re: All UK Groups subscribed?
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| (...) Naw, nobody's in trouble... Richard and Simon were just trying to be helpful. I just reckon there are much cleaner solutions. --Todd (26 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
| | | Re: All UK Groups subscribed?
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| On Wed, 12 May 1999 22:32:31 GMT, Duane Hess uttered the following profundities... (...) I deeply regret my actions. There were far-ranging implications which I hadn't even thought about. I feel even more deeply regretful for anyone who might have (...) (26 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: All UK Groups subscribed?
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| (...) Richard & Simon, Please do not do this; please do not spam all the UK groups with a message like this -- there are too many loc.uk.* groups (83) for this to be a reasonable solution. Anyone who cares to know will either easily figure out all (...) (26 years ago, 12-May-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.admin.general)
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