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Subject: 
Re: Bad news for NASA
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Thu, 22 Jul 2004 17:51:28 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Kelly McKiernan wrote:
   In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
   In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Kelly McKiernan wrote:

(snip)

I have forceFUTed your post (and am considering others in the tree as well) to .debate as it’s veering in that direction (discussions of the merits of funding are probably not nearly as well suited to geek). Note that you can always change the FUT back if you disagree with good reason or because you are going back on topic for .geek

Hmm, thought I was on topic for .geek, but you’re right, it was starting to become a debate. I agree the followup on this should go to .debate.

Had further thoughts about this - are there guidelines about recognizing at what point a thread should be rerouted into a different group? This particular thread, IMO, is pretty harmless (now), but I can see how threads can deteriorate. I’d like to understand what’s proper so I can do it correctly myself, rather than make the staff work harder.

If there’s not a guide on how to do that, maybe there should be. Oh, Lennnnnyyyy... ;)

Kelly



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  Re: Bad news for NASA
 
This is a reply to both Kelly and Steve (close by in the tree) and the FUT is set to just admin.general (...) I don't know what's proper. We're experimenting. I hope people won't get too upset about it, till we get it right. I did an experiment (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general, FTX)

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  Re: Bad news for NASA
 
(...) Hmm, thought I was on topic for .geek, but you're right, it was starting to become a debate. I agree the followup on this should go to .debate. (...) I saw part of that thread, but hadn't read it in a while - I had a hard time with some of the (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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