Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!uwvax!oddjob!matt
From: matt@oddjob.UChicago.EDU (D 1 4 U 2 C)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Wish List re: Crossposting
Message-ID: <14754@oddjob.UChicago.EDU>
Date: 17 May 88 15:52:56 GMT
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In article <555@scovert.sco.COM> davidbe@sco.COM (The Cat in the Hat) writes:
) Let people crosspost FROM talk.bizarre.  Don't let people crosspost TO 
) talk.bizarre.  That's where most of the trouble comes from.  People who don't
) understand the purpose of talk.bizarre.

Perhaps this is true from the point of view of a regular talk.bizarre
reader.  From my point of view, and that of several people I have
talk or corresponded with, the "trouble" comes from talk.bizarre
regulars crossposting out.  Sometimes they just don't know what some
other newsgroup is about, other times it is clear that their sole
purpose is to annoy people.

Besides, it would be damn hard for software to tell the difference
between crossposting "to" and "from" a newsgroup.

			Matt