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From: amb@cs.columbia.edu (Andrew Boardman)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.groups
Subject: Re: let's quit propagating talk.bizarre
Summary: This is a truly stupendously *bad* idea...
Keywords: cross-posting wars
Message-ID: <536@cs.columbia.edu>
Date: 6 Dec 89 17:48:31 GMT
References: <122@rayssd.ray.com>
Reply-To: amb@cs.columbia.edu (Andrew Boardman)
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Organization: Columbia University Department of Quiche Eating
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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.

Seems to me this sort of things has been tried before.  A stunt like
this, aimed at talk.bizarre-ites, is not going to *decrease* the amount
of flamage around.  Not bloody close.  Last time they just took over a
new news group.

Technical note to consider, if this cross-posting thing annoys you:
If t.b is not propogated directly, cross-posting to a group that *is*
propogated will get the article propogated.  Any group will do...

/a