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Re: 30 posts away? [[Freedoms]]
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lugnet.org, lugnet.general
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Tue, 31 Jul 2001 22:15:08 GMT
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In lugnet.org, David Eaton writes:
> In lugnet.org, Matthew Gerber writes:
> > If Richard's little toung-in-cheek ribbing of the high-volume groups is
> > unwelcome, then so too must be any obiquitous post from left-field.
> > [snip examples]
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> My take on it is that it's "ok" up to a point. Obviously, once a group is
> dominated by left-field remarks, it's no longer relevant and should be moved
> elsewhere.
Right...and as a .org group, it SHOULD be up to them to poilce
themselves...but perhaps not in public, and not so vehemently, in my mind.
> The other danger of having lots of these remarks being that people
> may stop reading the group (and posting to it!) for lack of interesting content
> (to them).
Jesse Alan Long Syndrome.
<little snip>
> Where's the line? Probably different for everyone. I haven't been reading
> rtlToronto (except a couple cross-posts into NELUG), but as long as the
> majority of posts in the group are "in bounds" for the group, no problem by
> me...
Yep...it's all about tolerable lines...Calum's seems to have been
crossed...other's weren't...
Matt
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| (...) My take on it is that it's "ok" up to a point. Obviously, once a group is dominated by left-field remarks, it's no longer relevant and should be moved elsewhere. The other danger of having lots of these remarks being that people may stop (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jul-01, to lugnet.org, lugnet.general)
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