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Article #309Re: willy waving
From: Mary Pegg
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 20:02
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 20:02
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Peter J Ross wrote: >>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. Fair enough: where I live it's an offence not to clean up after your dog in public areas. >>> 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 By this logic, you might as well cross-post from alt.motorcycles to rec.pets.cats, cos some rpc regulars might be interested in motorbikes... no, it's moronic. > 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? Did I say anything about "off-topic"? No, I did not.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10b88a,aa8c0488677fb0bb X-Google-Attributes: gid10b88a,public X-Google-Thread: fd665,69ad7406d30ec009 X-Google-Attributes: gidfd665,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-07-19 13:02:12 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newspeer1-gui.server.ntli.net!ntli.net!newsfep4-winn.server.ntli.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: Mary Pegg <nospam@widetrouser.freeserve.co.uk> Subject: Re: willy waving Newsgroups: altnet.general,uk.misc References: <3ede919c15eda@danger.diabolik> <bdse9b$sdu$1@pita.alt.net> <3f01e5468dfa@danger.diabolik> <bdt60u$cot$0@pita.alt.net> <3f021fa79f10@danger.diabolik> <md84gv8kpara820lug0ni5nm3rnl2tj9jp@4ax.com> <7SDMa.1140$ju6.10744@newsfep4-glfd.server.ntli.net> <be2qqq$fp3$0@pita.alt.net> <i3b3eb.qsb.ln@gadfly.meow.org> <cHhNa.3468$nP.533@newsfep4-winn.server.ntli.net> <f257d4afec4f512a88201126c9b484d8@free.teranews.com> Lines: 29 Organization: Dis User-Agent: KNode/0.7.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Message-ID: <7thSa.1168$Ai3.696@newsfep4-winn.server.ntli.net> Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 21:02:10 +0100 NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.104.195.69 X-Complaints-To: abuse@ntlworld.com X-Trace: newsfep4-winn.server.ntli.net 1058644931 81.104.195.69 (Sat, 19 Jul 2003 21:02:11 BST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 21:02:11 BST