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On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 06:21:11PM +0000, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> My experience with this particular (NASA/congress/shuttle) topic the
> several times it comes up is that sooner or later it always clearly
> belongs in .debate. I may have acted too early. But I already saw some
> of the codewords... (Shuttle eating everything else for example).
The fact that past threads became debates doesn't mean that talking
about NASA is OT for .geek. I'd recommend judging each thread by it's
own contents, not by the history of the subject.
> Prove me wrong! Set the FUT back and stay out of debate areas... I'd
> like that because it meant that the thread stayed out of debatable
> stuff and there would be a teachable moment in there.
Regardless if anyone actually replies to the thread anymore, I think
this is the wrong approach - shouldn't the guiding rule be "when in
doubt, wait and see"? Instead of "at the first hint of trouble, punt!"?
(I'm guessing the FUT on your post was to admin.general, but I have no
easy way of knowing - it wasn't in the text of your post, and FUTs are
apparently broken for SMTP users).
Setting FUT to admin.general.
Dan
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Dan Boger
dan@peeron.com
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| 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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