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Re: All UK Groups subscribed?
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lugnet.loc.uk
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Wed, 12 May 1999 22:37:25 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.uk, Simon Denscombe writes:
> 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.
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> 1) It's not SPAM - that's unsolicited commercial e-mail, this has no
> monetary value whatsoever.
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.
> 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.
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> > 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).
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> That would be a good idea but doesn't work well from NNTP.
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> > 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
I think that is best left to Todd, since he is head honcho around here.
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| (...) I'll try to get them all deleted before the daily digests go out. If anyone is receiving the groups via e-mail in an instantaneous way, I'm afraid the damage has already been done and their inboxes will already have been flooded. --Todd (26 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| (...) 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 (...) (26 years ago, 12-May-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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