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From: karl@sugar.hackercorp.com (Karl Lehenbauer)
Newsgroups: alt.sources.d
Subject: Re: obnoxious mail
Summary: Is all this much ado about nothing?
Message-ID: <4376@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Date: 17 Oct 89 03:16:37 GMT
References: <2024@convex.UUCP> <1989Oct13.172720.3353@jose.uucp> <5594@videovax.tv.tek.com> <1989Oct15.165938.25103@ginger.acc.com>
Reply-To: karl@sugar.hackercorp.com (Karl Lehenbauer)
Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston
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Sometimes the problem is less disruptive than the cure.  I feel this way
a lot when reading news.groups and news.admin.

Volume in alt.sources is not that high.  The 'n' key works, and rn users
can even use 'k' or 'K' to nuke the thread.

I would recommend an alt.sources monthly posting, but we do that over in
comp.sys.amiga* and still get a lot of postings where people are obviously
coming into the group for the first time and blasting off a request without
scanning through the message base at all.

So it's sort of a net-wide problem with unmoderated groups, anyway...
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