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[Apologies for the delay. I was offline long enough for your post to
be purged from Altopia, and I've just found it because I've been
forced temporarily to resort to using Teranews.]

On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 17:11:51 +0100, Mary Pegg
<nospam@widetrouser.freeserve.co.uk> chewed laurel leaves and spoke to
altnet.general as Apollo dictated:

>Peter J Ross wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 04:03:48 +0100, a jury from alt.arts.poetry.comments
>> found Steve Leyland guilty of posting this:
>> 
>>>then IMHO the aforementioned "lot of people" should simply use their
>>>killfiles and stop whining.
>
>Let's say somebody keeps throwing dogshit into my backyard.
>Should I simply stop whining and build a higher fence?

That's real life. This is Usenet. It's /your/ back yard but it's
/everybody's/ Usenet.

>> Let's suppose further that I added three extra newsgroups to the
>> crosspost 
>
>It doesn't matter what your reasons are, you're dragging unrelated,
>uninterested newsgroups into it.  That's abuse.

No, I'm imagining a situation in which the added newsgroups contain
some regular posters who would be interested in participating in the
cascade and some who, like you, would dislike it. I'm interested in
the borderline between net.abuse and acceptable behaviour.

I'm also interested in the difference between the kind of trolling
which is obviously intended to be destructive and the kind that's
merely meant as a bit of fun that many of the regulars might enjoy.

>> [followups set to altnet.general only]
>
>uk.misc added, cos that is where I am at.

I don't think you can seriously complain about off-topic posts in a
.misc group, can you? You could complain about flooding or rogue
cancelling or spam, but off-topic posts? Really?

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PJR :-)
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