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From: hes@ecsvax.UUCP (Henry Schaffer)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: free advertising
Message-ID: <986@ecsvax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 25-Dec-85 15:24:19 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 25 15:24:19 1985
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> 
>   I propose that the net (attempt to) set a standard such that feedback
> about notes that advertise on the net do NOT respond to the offending note,
> but rather start new notes.
> 
>   Right now, some unnamed service in an unnamed net.xxxx notesfile has
> quite a coup going.  I read it once when it first showed up, and I've gotten
> the pleasure of seeing it 5 more times from my automatic sequencer as 5
> responses have come in, one at a time.  ...
> 
> Perry Wagle, Indiana University, Bloomington Indiana.

   Well, that's notes for you. :-)  Please don't fix it is such a way that it
loses the base note (that description sure fits advertising!) and then
generates Orphaned Responses for all the followups.
--henry schaffer