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From: richman@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Michael Richman)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: inappropriate postings
Summary: birds of all feathers ought to flock together
Keywords: flames indoor
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Date: 28 Aug 90 04:57:02 GMT
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In article <64347@oliveb.atc.olivetti.com> mjm@oliven.olivetti.com (Michael Mammoser) writes:
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[most of the comments deleted]
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>	The issue, to rec.birds, is not whether the group should
>be split to accomodate groups of differing interests. The definition
>of rec.birds is quite clear, and accomodates the appropriate
>people quite nicely, without change. The issue is whether we can 
>convince the inappropriate people to take their postings and their 
>discussion of a newsgroup split back to the appropriate place, namely
>rec.pets.
>
>Mike


Nice diatribe, Mike.  Most readers are a tad more tolerant
though.  If you have rn or nn, hit the ^K key and enter the
following two lines:


/: *INDOOR/:j
/: *indoor/:j

Most all indoor posters were using this  convention.   Your  kill
file  will  then skip over all indoor postings which use the term
indoor.  This will be performed automatically and you won't  have
to  even  hit  your  "n" key.  As for guidelines, most all groups
have tolerated some changes in  their  original  intent.   So  it
goes.   Remember,  this is USENET and the dictionary defines that
as anarchy (:-).
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