jimc@haddock.UUCP (02/27/85)
Look, gang, I hate to pick nits, but don't you people think one note directing our attention to net.tv.drwho is enough? It seems like every day this newsgroup there is a new posting which says the same darn thing.
boyajian@akov68.DEC (03/05/85)
> From: haddock!jimc > Look, gang, I hate to pick nits, but don't you people think one note > directing our attention to net.tv.drwho is enough? It seems like > every day this newsgroup there is a new posting which says the same darn > thing. And it seemed like every day that someone was posting a message to net.startrek that had something to do with DR. WHO and *nothing* to do with STAR TREK. It was bad enough back some months ago when this newsgroup was deluged with postings describing some "wonderful" scenario in which Who meets up with the *Enterprise* crew. But when we get messages that do nothing more than tell us more than we ever wanted to know about how long Dr. Who's scarf is (if we're lucky, it's long enough with which to strangle him to death), especially when that person commented that there seemed to be enough interest in DR. WHO to justify its own newsgroup, why *shouldn't* we tell him there is one. The reason that messages appear day after day, is that the netnews postings take their time ambling around the network, so folks don't read everything at the same time. They read the messages on different days, and they respond on different days. When one person posts his reply, he might not find out for a few days that other people have posted a reply also. I have no wish to denigrate those who like DR. WHO. Even though I despise the show myself, I will put up with seeing discussions of it if it's in an appropriate newsgroup. If Who discussions appear in net.sf-lovers, I really can't complain, since the show *is* sf, and many of the postings in net.sf-lovers come from ARPANet people who don't see net.tv.drwho. But DR. WHO has nothing to do with STAR TREK, and discussions about it have no place here. --- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Maynard, MA) UUCP: {decvax|ihnp4|allegra|ucbvax|...}!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian ARPA: boyajian%akov68.DEC@DECWRL.ARPA
percus@acf4.UUCP (Allon G. Percus) (03/08/85)
Come on, fellow Whovians: let's be really mean and transfer all
discussion from net.tv.drwho to net.startrek :-)
[Sarcasm intended -- please don't flame]
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