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Dave Nagle, <dnagle@hades.omen.com.au> writes:
>> Why is aus.general more sensitive to crossposts than other aus.*
>> groups?

Phil Herring <revdoc@uow.edu.au> writes:
> Because of its name, it tends to attract more crossposts, eg.,
> from Bob Allisat and his ilk.

I think this is a poor "rule" (whatever that means in Usenet).

Why on earth would a reader of a group called general expect to 
find any sort of tightly focused subject matter? As you say, it 
attracts posts that are about anything and everything. Probably 
crossposted from their real home. So what?

There is also the technical problem that you cannot remove the 
article from aus.general without also removing it from 
aus.politics, aus.org.efa and the other groups it was posted to.

In other words, a post which does not violate the charter of most 
aus.* groups gets removed because it violates the charter of one 
of the few "poison" groups in aus.*.

...Dave