knf@druxo.UUCP (FricklasK) (07/16/85)
This is a request to all those who think that everybody not only needs to read their review once, but twice or more: STOP POSTING TO MORE THAN ONE NEWS GROUP!!! (LISTEN LEEPER!) Not all readers of news read only one newsgroup, net.sf-lovers! When I want to read a major movie review, I read net.movies. When I want to read a book review of a NON-SF book, I read net.books. And when I read a review of the new book by Piers Anthony, I expect it to be in net.sf-lovers. (Maybe mentioning Anthony was a bad idea...) I don't need to see every article twice. Now I realize that some of you put a lot of work into your little reviews, but I STILL don't need to read them twice. What I ask is the following: use a teaser! (teaser: [tee-zer] n. a two line description in a newsgroup describing an article in another newsgroup meant to inform interested parties that an article they might want to read exists elsewhere.) For example, Leeper might post to sf-lovers: -> SEE NET.MOVIES FOR THE LATEST IN MARK LEEPER'S OBNOXIOUS REVIEWS!!! -> This week Mark Reviews Mad Max Beyond the Pleasuredome, -> Blue Sonja, Forward to the Past, Gunkies, and Brunch of the Dead! This way I only need to read an article once. Or is this too difficult? This would also challenge article writers to come up with new and more interesting teasers.
davidk@dartvax.UUCP (David C. Kovar) (07/17/85)
The author asks us to post to one newsgroup and asks if it's too difficult
to do so. I find it far more difficult to go wading through net.movies
to find the one movie review I want each week than it is for me to hit
the 'n' key once to ignore a duplicate posting. Please KEEP posting
SF movie reviews here, I read them, and I like them, and I like to
discuss them HERE. I realize that there are times when duplicate postings
are not a good diea, but this is not one of them.
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David C. Kovar
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"Burning Chrome" by William Gibsonpsc@lzwi.UUCP (Paul S. R. Chisholm) (07/31/85)
< I can use my magic to change the color to red -- but I don't do windows. > In article <907@druxo.UUCP>, knf@druxo.UUCP (FricklasK) writes: > When I want to read > a major movie review, I read net.movies. When I want to read a book review > of a NON-SF book, I read net.books. And when I read a review of the new > book by Piers Anthony, I expect it to be in net.sf-lovers. I think it's perfectly reasonable to post to both net.movies and net.sf-lovers. I greatly enjoy review by the Leepers and Peter Rehert, but I don't get out to enough movies to subscribe to net.movies. Probably most SF novels shouldn't be posted to net.books; alas, printed SF is a ghetto for both insiders and outsiders. There are exceptions: FOOTFALL is on the bestsellers lists, and reviews could quite reasonably be posted to both groups (but *not* discussions on "Why would aliens want our land/water/air/women?") I subscribe to many of the net.micro groups. I consider uncessary cross-posting to me a minor problem there, and even less serious here. -- -Paul S. R. Chisholm The above opinions are my own, {pegasus,vax135}!lzwi!psc not necessarily those of any {mtgzz,ihnp4}!lznv!psc telecommunications company. (*sigh* ihnp4!lzwi!psc does *NOT* work!!! Use above paths.) "It must be fast, and it must be red, and it must have windows."