🚀 go-pugleaf

well put.  maybe you can help implement this somehow, since u're "up there
.."

"Josh L." <jl194@acmex.gatech.edu> wrote in message
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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)