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From: tneff@bfmny0.UUCP (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: alt.sources,news.admin,alt.sources.d
Subject: STOP CROSSPOSTING CHATTER INTO ALT.SOURCES!
Summary: what he said
Message-ID: <14441@bfmny0.UUCP>
Date: 7 Jul 89 01:41:27 GMT
References: <17414@gryphon.COM>
Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.UUCP (Tom Neff)
Followup-To: alt.sources.d
Organization: ^
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Even net.veterans are guilty of this now.  (I have been too, so I'm
not trying to be holier than thou.)

Alt.sources is a precious net resource where you can get red hot code
without the dead weight of a moderator's icy hand.  We are currently
p***ing people off because alt.sources is full of chatter about Germany
and Russia and Elvis and Peanut Butter.

PLEASE EVERYBODY STOP IT!

Now I crossposted this into alt.sources too, but if you look at the
header you'll see the OTHER thing people should be doing but they're
not -- including a "Followup-To:" line in any crossposted article.
(I wish newsreader programs would enforce this!)  By directing followup
discussion to a ".d" newsgroup I prevent this posting from turning
into yet another alt.sources flame war.  Kapisch?

Get with it people.  Or no dessert.  :-)
-- 
"My God, Thiokol, when do you     \\	Tom Neff
want me to launch -- next April?"  \\	uunet!bfmny0!tneff