🚀 go-pugleaf

In message <jpl8270-1102961009170001@205.242.194.168>,
jpl8270@tongue.sctv.net (J. La Rue) wrote:

>In article <Pine.BSD.3.91.960210040634.4038C-100000@terrazzo.lm.com>, DrG
><manus@manus.org> wrote:
>> On Fri, 9 Feb 1996, David Veal whiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiined:
>[...]
>> >        I have to spend sufficient time with it to know that it isn't what 
>> > I'm interested in reading.  Further, the thread subject often has little 
>> 
>> What needed investigated about the "Giant Killer Hamsters?"
>> 
>> > or nothing to do with where the topic is going.  (Even worse, it may have 
>> > spawned off into multiple threads with the same subject line).
>> > 
>> >        Wouldn't it be a lot easier on everyone if people made an effort 
>> > to route their postings to groups of the appropriate subject?
>> > 
>> So what? -- all newsgroups are public property.
>> That means nothing to you.  You route messages to the intended viewer!
>> 
>> > > >       A little courtesy on people's parts when it comes to newsgroups
>> > > >lines will make things a lot more pleasant on everybody.  This whole 
>> 
>> And the courtesy is to stay the fuck out of peoples' mailboxes when 
>> talking about any Usenet stuff.  Usenet is a joke.  E-mail is for business.
>> Get them straight.
>> 
>> > > >concept of proudly cross-posting to every group that comes to mind
>or has 
>> > > >ever been in the thread is certainly not very appealing.
>> > > >
>> 
>> That is not my concept.  I post to only the relevant groups.
>> However, that may be over 20 groups sometimes.
>> 
>> > > so, tell the poster that in his home-newsgroup.
>> > 
>> >        In the first place there's no real way to tell what somebody's 
>> > "home group" is, assuming it has any meaning.  (Newsgroups are defined by 
>> 
>> BULLSHIT!  You KNOW that MY home.newsgroup is alt.is.too
>> And newsgroups are defined by POPULATION even more than subject.
>> It is the PEOPLE who frequent those newsgroups that make the rules,
>> not some old stupid charter or FAQ.
>
>[...]
>
>At the risk of agreeing with an apparent net.outlaw like Grubor, he is
>absolutely right about the consensual nature of intra-newsgroup
>"netiquette."  Some newsgroups, for instance, welcome newcomers who barge
>in, flaming away, but despise binaries.  Other newsgroups want more
>binaries and less talk.  That's fair.  
>
>    What pisses me off is when one newsgroup will attempt to "invade"
>another and then whiiiiiiiiiiine about the evil nasty crossposters the
>instant they realize that they are about to get their asses kicked from
>one end of the Usenet to another.  Treat others as you would like to be
>treated yourself.

I also must agree with Grubor here and Mr. LaRue.  People shouldn't whine
when something they start backfires on them.

--
Scot J. Trudeau
strudeau@star.net
http://www.star.net/people/~strudeau/