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Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.misc
From: Theo Markettos <theom+n...@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Date: 20 Mar 2007 11:36:20 +0000 (GMT)
Local: Tues 20 Mar 2007 11:36
Subject: Re: Public discussion (was thanks for the fish)
David Holden <black_h...@apdl.co.uk> wrote: Thanks, that's a sensible approach. Over on cam.misc there's a fairly > In general, I think that the OT stuff, while not a good thing and should be > discouraged is *in itself* not really detrimental to the groups. The silly > arguments that such threads often lead to certainly is, as is the equally > silly bickering which arises when the self-appointed 'net police' turn up > and admonish the participants. similar relaxed attitude - apart from the few deranged spammers (easily killfiled) it's more "misc, for anyone who has even a tenuous connection with Cambridge" and it seems to work. > I think most of the regulars around here (note use of 'most') are quite Indeed. What's much more annoying than OT drift is the few people who have > grown up enough to police ourselves. If a thread does start to drift > seriously OT, with the current low level of traffic on these groups, > although it can be annoying, at least it lets us know that there are still > more than half a dozen people still alive out there. a political cause to promote and post huge numbers of irrelevant 'news' stories to push their cause. Often they're hard to killfile, which makes the group much less workable. (see uk.local.*, sci.geo.*, some of talk.* etc) I should add that it's much easier to get newsgroups created/renamed now, so Theo You must Sign in before you can post messages.
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