Xref: utzoo news.admin:7891 news.groups:15367 Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!bfmny0!tneff From: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.groups Subject: Re: let's quit propagating talk.bizarre Keywords: cross-posting wars Message-ID: <14982@bfmny0.UU.NET> Date: 6 Dec 89 16:16:53 GMT References: <122@rayssd.ray.com> Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff) Followup-To: news.admin Lines: 17 In article <122@rayssd.ray.com> gmp@quahog.ssd.ray.com (Greg Paris) writes: >My proposal is this: let's quit propagating talk.bizarre. Leave the group >intact, but don't forward it to your neighbors. This action can be thought >of as a penalty for poor net-citizenship. If you think that the actions of >talk.bizarre posters are out of line, please quit propagating the group. Another solution would be to publish patches for B news, C news and TMNN that explicitly "quarantine" talk.bizarre by rewriting the Newsgroups: line to eliminate any groups mentioned _besides_ talk.bizarre. The effect would be to make t.b a "crosspost tarbaby". Unfortunately there is no universally accepted system for patching user behavior :-) -- "UNIX should be used :: Tom Neff or as an adjective." -- AT&T :: ...uunet!bfmny0!tneff (UUCP only)