rissa@attctc.Dallas.TX.US (Patricia O Tuama) (12/07/89)
In article <122@rayssd.ray.com> gmp@quahog.ssd.ray.com (Greg Paris) writes: >My proposal is this: let's quit propagating talk.bizarre. Leave the group >intact, but don't forward it to your neighbors. This action can be thought >of as a penalty for poor net-citizenship. If you think that the actions of >talk.bizarre posters are out of line, please quit propagating the group. But what good would this do, Greg? Even if you were to succeed in shutting down the newsgroup, the netters who post there would simply move to some other newsgroup. Of course, I could be wrong, but I'm willing to bet big bucks that that's what would happen. And besides, where would this trend stop once it got started? t.b is hardly the worst net.offender when it comes to xposting.
jpalmer@uwovax.uwo.ca (J. Palmer) (12/12/89)
In article <8139@stiatl.UUCP>, meo@stiatl.UUCP (Miles O'Neal) writes: > Mr. Paris claims via email to have over 60 sysadmins to have > written him saying that they are dropping talk.bizarre propagation. I get the strong feeling that at least some sysadmins are no longer propagating talk.bizarre: during the past week, our system has received only 95 articles in t.b, and nearly 300 in rec.humour and comp.sys.ibm.pc. Usually these three groups have about the same number of postings. Either the t.b posters have gone silent (which seems unlikely) or we are not receiving everything at this site. It is confusing and maddening to receive only a few of the articles and not be able to follow a thread completely. So in which group can I read ALL of t.b? -- reply to jpalmer@uwovax.uwo.ca The Economics Institute for Journalists London, Ontario CANADA N6A 5C2 Voice: (519) 661-3533 FAX: 661-3292 ============================================================================== The New Economics: Overlapping Generalizations & Rationalized Expectorations