🚀 go-pugleaf

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.

Johnny La Rue