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Michael Lee <gte980p@prism.gatech.edu> wrote:

> I don't really see what the big deal is anyways .. its just a newsgroup.
> Aren't we taking this a bit too far?  Actually on second thought, I see what

The way I look at it, a person comes along, and they make a post that breaks
The Rules.  (I'll defer a discussion of price-copping, that's a somewhat 
different animal)  Perhaps they were being malicious, such as the people
who post the damn PayPal spam on here, but odds are much better that they
just don't know The Rules.  I tend to agree that they need to be informed
of The Rules somehow, and although it would make a lot more sense to do
so in an email, as Galadriel recommended, it's just not going to happen
that way.

So then, you have one of us regulars come along and make a DELIBERATE
and useless post, as opposed to a useless post made due to ignorance.
I find the former more annoying to have to read, since it's a deliberate
and conscious act to do something that, personally, annoys the hell out
of me.

But, people aren't going to stop making those posts, and I'm not going to
try to argue that they should.  I'm just saying that, if you're going to
be consciously putting a post onto this NG to try to keep the signal/noise
ratio higher, you should clearly mark it for those of us who consider your
post to be noise.

-- 
Josh Litherland (josh.litherland@oit.gatech.edu)