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From: rvd@bunker.isc-br.com (Robert Del Favero Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Re: Stop the gate!
Message-ID: <19281@bunker.isc-br.com>
Date: 7 Jun 91 16:41:58 GMT
References: <675477488@f521.n281.z2.fidonet.org> <1306861962@f241.n260.z1.fidonet.org>
Reply-To: rvd@clunker.UUCP (Robert Del Favero)
Organization: ISC-Bunker Ramo, an Olivetti Company, Shelton, Ct
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In article <1306861962@f241.n260.z1.fidonet.org> Paul_King%f241.n260.z1@hippo.dfv.rwth-aachen.de (Paul King) writes:
>
> jp->  PK> Please hunt down and kill the person(s) who are gating the
> jp->  PK> Fidonet Windows.Prog echo to/from the UUCP newsgroup
> jp-> Hey why? It's very nice to read the UUCP feed here... most
> jp-> messages are on a high level, just as the aim of this
> jp-> area!
>
>There are a couple of reasons.  First and foremost, it is duplicate 
>information.

More importantly, the Fidonet gateway changes the ID information
attached to Usenet articles and causes copies of Usenet articles to
reappear on Usenet.  (i.e. I (rvd@clunker) post an article on
Tuesday, and on Thursday I see a second copy of it, from
"rvd@Fidonet".)  The duplicate messages are really annoying, not to
mention that they consume valuable network resources.

If you guys want to spread information on Usenet, then go right ahead. 
But if you're going to mindlessly spew garbage and chatter, then keep
it to yourselves.  We can do that just fine for ourselves.

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Robert V. Del Favero, Jr.            ISC-Bunker Ramo, an Olivetti Company 
rvd@clunker.shel.isc-br.com                     Shelton, Connecticut, USA