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From: W_TROIA@upr1.upr.cun.edu (Paolo V. Troia)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: What all comp.sys.amiga.**** readers should know
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Date: 31 Oct 90 13:40:15 GMT
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In article <6658@chorus.fr>, ferry@chorus.fr (Ferry de Jong) writes:
>[...]
>	     You are making a mess out of the groups
>
>The following may overlap a lot of the local call for discussion to split
>the groups but it has a quite different approach. I think it isn't needed to
>create more groups and that we can manage with the current ones if we use them
>wisely. Next are a few short paragraphs that describe, in my opinion, what is 
>happening in comp.sys.amiga.**** and causes of the call for more groups.
>[...]
>Posting in the wrong group:
>
>It is hard to believe that so many people are able to pick exactly the wrong
>newsgroup to post something. Look at the next four articles I found today in
>comp.sys.amiga and belong in a different group. (No personal hard feeling
>against the posters)
>[...]
>Think, before you post. It isn't difficult to pick the right group.
     No, it isn't that difficult to pick the right group... *if* you have a 
choice of newsgroups to post it to, that is. Keep in mind that not *all* 
the people who send articles to the net have direct access to Usenet, and 
thus might not have much of a choice of newsgroups when posting their 
articles. Some people (like me) get the c.s.a.* newsgroups over the mail by 
means of amiga-relay. Unfortunately, the only newsgroup we can post to 
using amiga-relay (to the best of my knowledge, correct me if I'm wrong) is 
c.s.a. So even when we might be aware that an article should be posted to 
misc.computers.forsale, for example, we have no choice but to post it to 
c.s.a. (assuming it's Amiga-related, of course).

     I think the poster made some very good points, and I agree that people
who have a choice should try to post their articles to the propper groups 
(and avoid inconveniencing other fellow users...). Just remember not 
*everyone* has a choice of newsgroups when posting, so please think twice 
before flaming a mis-posted article's poster. 

     I, for one, I'm sorry if I have to inconvinience fellow netters with 
my postings in the future, but please understand that at this time I simply 
have no other choice (if you happen to know of an alternative, please *do* 
let me know!).

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