Path: utzoo!hoptoad!uunet!nuchat!splut!jay
From: jay@splut.UUCP (Jay Maynard)
Newsgroups: alt.flame
Subject: Re: Proposal for addition to new versions of the news software.
Summary: Crossposting to alt.flame is appropriate, in limited circumstances.
Message-ID: <296@splut.UUCP>
Date: 23 Dec 87 02:44:38 GMT
References: <22198@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <670@brandx.rutgers.edu>
Organization: Confederate Microsystems, League City, TX
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In article <670@brandx.rutgers.edu>, webber@brandx.rutgers.edu (Webber) writes:
> In article <22198@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>, bryce@hoser.berkeley.edu (Bryce Nesbitt) writes:
> > Some initial barriers I suggest are:
> > [amongst some good suggestions]
> > (alt.flame vs. -anything else-)
> 
> This is absolutely silly.  Crossposting to alt.flame (and redirection
> of followups to same) is the only decent way to handle the flammage that
> ideas such as the above inevitably generate.  

As the recent poster of an article that I feel was appropriately
cross-posted to comp.unix.xenix and alt.flame, I agree. Sometimes, it's
appropriate to post a flamish article to a "real" group, because it may
generate some real, live, relevant information in return.

How about this: Instead of disallowing cross-posts this way, why not simply
disallow crossposted followups if a fence is in effect?

And a suggestion for another fence: a 4-way, between soc.men, soc.women,
soc.motss, and soc.singles. (If you have rn, you can implement filters to
catch cross-posted articles on reading yourself. Ask Mike Robinson at
Berkeley, wsho posted the message on how to do it to soc.women. [Side note:
as originally posted, his trap would allow an article cross-posted to
soc.women and rec.woodworking to go through; I'm trying to think up a good
article to post that way. :-) ] )

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