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From: ronc@fai
Newsgroups: net.news.adm
Subject: Re: child care
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Date: Mon, 28-Apr-86 21:48:00 EDT
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Posted: Mon Apr 28 21:48:00 1986
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>I CANNOT BELIEVE IT!  Not once, but twice!!!  How many people from
>Sweden do you suppose will respond?  Okay, how about Australia?  Too
>far?  You're expecting people from Ontario or Georgia or Washington
>or Nevada to reply?  Why send it to the whole bloody world then?  Why
>is it always from the same state?  Why from the same company?
***

From what I have seen, the New Jersey AT&T sites blow it in this fashion
more often than any other part of the world.  I think part of the problem
is that there's a misconception on the part of the users over there that
Usenet is an AT&T network.  I've taken issue with offenders in this area
via private mail and have been told a) there are no local groups in NJ,
b) because of this, there's nothing wrong with posting lost and found
notices in net.general, and c) they don't give a damn about the rest
of the world.

In a similar vein, it occurs to me that the low traffic in net.general
makes it a tempting place to post when you want to be sure to be noticed.
Thus, it's a 'dandy' place for garage sale ads and requests for babysitting,
and a 'great' extension of net.politics.  I don't know what the solution
might be.  Discussions on nuking net.general have already been beat into
the ground, and probably don't belong here in any case.


				Ron
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		Ronald O. Christian (Fujitsu America Inc., San Jose, Calif.)
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Oliver's law of assumed responsibility:
	"If you are seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it."