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Re: Please Limit Crossposting!



Randy,
Many of the people crossposting are not very concerned about
appropriateness.  They just want a large audience for their rants!

The way to get these threads out of your news group(s) is to send a
pretty interesting (controversial?) reply to the last item in a thread
and leave your newsgroup out of the list of newsgroups.  If your
thread is interesting enough to capture all the followups, then 
none will come back to your newsgroup (unless someone notices your
clever ruse and sticks your newsgroup back into the crosspost list).

If you or anyone on sci.environment should try this, please leave
sci.agriculture and alt.sustainable.agriculture out of the list
also.

In article <59c3v6$si5@fcnews.fc.hp.com>,
Randy Campbell <randyc@fc.hp.com> wrote:
>Hey all,
>
>Would you please give some thought to the appropriateness before
>crossposting your articles all over creation?
>
>In a quick perusal of sci.environment, I found articles crossposted 
>to/from the following groups:
>
>    sci.environment

[snip]

>    sci.agriculture
>
>I realize that some crossposting is appropriate, but of late this seems
>to have become so epidemic that it's hard to find any of the discussion
>for which I visit sci.environment, namely discussion of environmental
>issues from a scientific perspective.

I would say no interest in science in much of it.
>
>Instead, I find many, many politically-oriented discussions, and many
>of them accompanied by profuse flamage.  The political discussions have
>their place, and *sometimes* that may even be sci.environment, but usually
>it isn't.

there are several alt. newsgroups which are wholely devoted to
starting flame wars and disrupting serious newsgroups.
>
>Please confine your discussions to appropriate forums.  I fear this
>crossposting tendency is making Usenet quite a bit less useful for
>everyone.  I know it is for me.
>
>Thanks,
>Randy
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Tom Hodges thodges@freenet.calgary.ab.ca
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