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From: michael@m-net.UUCP (Michael McClary)
Newsgroups: soc.singles,news.software.b
Subject: Re: USENET decisions
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Date: Mon, 13-Apr-87 00:48:44 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr 13 00:48:44 1987
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In article <742@terminus.UUCP> nyssa@terminus.UUCP (The Scrapyard... I'm sorry, Valeyard, force of habit, I apologize.) writes:
 
>Face it, Keith, there is a lot of traffic on the net, and many sites
>are getting overwhelmed.  Cutting traffic is a laudable goal, if it
>is an effort to filter out noise without censoring valid comment.
>Alot of repetition (as well as these huge signatures I sometimes
>see... There was one over 30 lines long...) is just noise.

Indeed, cutting traffic is a laudible goal.  But wouldn't having the mailer
ask you if you really wanted to send all that junk, rather than dripping
your post in the bit bucket with no opportunity to recover it (as some
news posters do), be better bahavior?

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