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Re: Policy FAQ: cross-posting policy (updated 12/11/98):

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From: Spiro
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 00:00
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In article <367b2521.3875392@BASE-ADDRESS.MCAST.NET>, Ramoth@home.net 
says...
>
>On Wed, 16 Dec 1998 16:24:46 GMT, cuchulain@heII-fIame-wars.org 
(Antaine) wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 16 Dec 1998 01:09:21 GMT, Ramoth@home.net wrote:
>>
>>>On 14 Dec 1998 22:57:59 GMT, mr_spiro@yahoo.com (Spiro) wrote:
>>>
>>>>In article <367a164c.154896078@news.classact.org>, 
ClassAct@skuz.net 
>>>>says...
>>>>>
>>>>>On Sat, 12 Dec 1998 23:52:28 GMT, *@a.a.m. (flyer) wrote:
>
><snip>
>
>>
>>Hmm...in that case the thread going on in AG where people are wishing
>>one another a merry Christmas would be off-topic and abusive in your 
>>opinion? Didn't you participate in that thread?
>Yes I did participate.  And it was directed to the ppl of altnet
>general. Not to the ppl participating in karl-malden`s nose.  Don't
>rightly know, if I know anyone in karl-malden`s nose???
>
>You are trying to shift the context of CROSS POSTING, to another
>subject.  A Merry Christmas thread in altnet general.
>
No he's not. He's asking you to define what constitutes "on-topic" or 
"off-topic" posting, by using an example.

HTH.

<...>


>>
>>I thought they were "shit-stirrers".
>oxy-U-moron
>
I'm afraid that's not a figure of speech constituting an oxymoron.

HTH too.


<...>


>You are in error and your supposedly arguments will carry no
>meaningful weight in any educated course of discussion.
>                         ^^^^^^^^


In the context of your posts, that's irony.




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Subject: Re: Policy FAQ: cross-posting policy (updated 12/11/98):
Date: 1998/12/17
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