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From: mark@cbosgd.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: Inappropriate Postings
Message-ID: <1385@cbosgd.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 28-May-84 22:05:44 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 28 22:05:44 1984
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In reading through net.general, I was not bowled over with postings
rebuking articles that should not have been there.  I was, however,
amazed at the number of articles that should not have been there.

I'd like to remind people that followups to net.general should go
into net.followup, not net.general.  readnews and vnews automatically
do this for you, I don't know what's needed to make notesfiles do the
right thing.  The articles I saw did not appear to be generated by
notesfiles.

I'd also like to remind you that net.announce was created for very
important announcements.  Lately, a number of such announcements have
been posted to net.general and there have been no requests to post to
net.announce.  If it's an announcement, you feel that it makes sense
to have everyone on the net read it, and it doesn't invite followups,
it's probably a good candicate for net.announce.  Mail submissions to
cbosgd!announce.

	Mark Horton