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Also sprach Joe:
: vlad@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu (Ken Nagle) wrote:

: >Now, I don't see all that much discussion about suburban concerns on a 
: >lot of these groups- except maybe a few like dc.jobs, dc.farsale.*, etc. In 
: >those cases, unless someone plans on moderating the group, you are going to 
: >have companies from all over offer jobs. Same thing with dc.forsale.*, in 
: There's no reason to strictly limit it to the District line, because
: we are a *region* as well as a city.   On the other hand, there *are*
: Maryland and Virginia groups, and so suburbanites posting here should
: show some respect and refrain from District-bashing.

I wouldn't want to District-bash unless, of course, it concerns Marion 
Barry. But that's more a Barry-bash than anything else. ;)=

For the most part, those who do have a stake in DC as someplace they 
work, live, eat-in, etc. definitely should have a place here.

: That's not all that big a problem, though.  The real problem is people
: posting stuff that has nothing *at all* to do with anything even
: slightly local to this *region* under the logic of, "Well, Washington
: is a unique city, and it's the NATION'S capital, and blahblahblah..."

Unfortunately, many of these people have access to these groups- 
dc.politics is full of a certain persons posts. But we can't stop him 
from posting- like any other troll he'll only post more if you try to get 
him to shut up.

                                                  Vlad

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