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From: tale@cs.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: *% CALL FOR VOTES %* NEW GROUP - soc.culture.british
Message-ID: <-2'K!*@rpi.edu>
Date: 20 Dec 89 22:33:02 GMT
References: <8912181809.AA01062@ncar.ucar.EDU> <16026@linkage.com>
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY
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In <16026@linkage.com> jpi@research.linkage.com (Jean-Paul Inso) writes:

> Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk,soc.misc,soc.culture.celtic,soc.culture.misc,talk.bi\zarre,rec.misc,rec.sport.misc,rec.sport.soccer,rec.arts.misc,news.announce.newg\roups,news.groups,news.admin

> In article <8912181809.AA01062@ncar.ucar.EDU>,
> MATON%SASK.BITNET@EVANS.UCAR.EDU crossposts to ALL the above groups,
> except for news.admin, which I added.

How pleasant of you to do that.  Why do the readers of all of those
groups care?  Oh, by the way, you seem to have picked up a couple of
extra backslashes up there, but it worked out well.  This didn't end
up going back to talk.bizarre or being sent to Greg Woods as moderated
of news.announce.newgroups.

> This wanton crossposting of talk.bizarre stupidity by talk.bizarre
> stupids must cease; I at least am quite fed up with these people and
> their inability to keep their trash in their own group.

What in the world are you talking about?  It was a legitimate call for
votes.  I don't see how it was appropriate for talk.bizarre as the
topic of the proposed group doesn't seem particularly related to the
world of talk.bizarre.  I wouldn't have posted it to rec.sport.soccer
rec.misc, rec.sport.misc or rec.arts.misc, either, but it wasn't my
decision.  Why don't you complain about them some?

> Shouldn't unneighborly conduct on the net be discouraged?

Yes.

> Shouldn't this barrage of crossposting cease?

Inappropriate cross-posting should.  I don't see why it was posted
_to_ talk.bizarre to begin with.  It wasn't posted _from_ there
though.  I just did a case-insensitive grep on the 804 articles in the
spool for talk.bizarre and 'maton' only came up in one article, the
one you replied to.

> Shouldn't we stop propagating talk.bizarre?

NO. 

Dave
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