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Subject: 
Crosspost Spamming (Was: Re: Blue Hopper Car Mania...)
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general
Followup-To: 
lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Wed, 17 Nov 1999 16:32:17 GMT
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Disclaimer: These views are my own and not necessarily those of market.shopping
or loc.uk, they are also not directed towards any individuals - the message I'm
responding to is just the latest!

It is just a *teansy* bit irratating that there have been two requests from
loc.uk to remove that group from the thread:
http://www.lugnet.com/loc/uk/?n=1789
http://www.lugnet.com/loc/uk/?n=1774

Although some people have thankfully removed the irrelevant groups - roughly
30-40% are still coming through.

In this case, I don't believe the cross-postings come from egotistical people,
who want everyone to read what they have to say. I think it's more of a case
that they don't realise that they are cross-posting, that the cross-posting
issue should be given more profile; so that it occurs to more people naturaly.

One way to do this is to use the "[Followups set to lugnet.blah.yap]"
mechanism.

Also - what proportion of people use the web-interface? Would it be possible to
make it more obvious from that perspective? Maybe if the Newsgroups entry box
was the width of the table, or if some other jiggery-pokery counted the numbers
of commas in the field and updated the "All Set?" box.

Maybe I *am* just a "compartmentalised dork", or just a dork, but it occurs to
me that if people continue to cross-post incorrectly and it becomes more
common, then all the work that has taken place to design Lugnets structure
becomes undermined.

[Followups set to lugnet.admin.general]

Play Well,
Richard



Message is in Reply To:
  Re: Blue Hopper Car Mania...
 
(...) Intewrestingly, a vast majority of IP protected works do Not allow resale (without prior written consent from the publisher). From my copy of Asimov's Foundation: "This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade (...) (25 years ago, 17-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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