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From: mesard@bbn.com (Wayne Mesard)
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Subject: Re: CALL FOR VOTES: talk.lists
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Date: 11 Jan 90 03:03:28 GMT
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davidbe@sco.COM (The Cat in the Hat) writes:
>Actually, I think while there may be some initial crossposting, once the
>group gets going, people will start saying "Take it to talk.lists" and 
>not crosspost.  This may be a bit optomistic, but stranger things have
>happened.

I assume you're thinking of alt.flame as a precedent.  This is a useful
group in that we are occasionally successful in getting a long,
personality-driven thread out of a group.  However, when people post the
list of smilies, for example, it's not a long annoying thread, it's a
lot of little annoying threads.  The latter are much harder to divert
somewhere appropriate.

I useful purpose for talk.lists might be for people to make requests for
a particular list (e.g., the purity test, the real programmers thingie,
etc.).  But I'm not convinced that the users who typically ask for
such things would realize that this is the place to post.

I sure would like to see this work (or fail) as an alt.* or trial.*
group first.

Wayne();