[talk.bizarre] Wish List re: Crossposting

shefter-bret@CS.YALE.EDU (Bret A. Shefter) (05/14/88)

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In article <439@bacchus.DEC.COM> reid@decwrl.UUCP (Brian Reid) writes:
>I think that if you took a poll of the rank and file of the network, you
>would find most people in support of a rule that talk.bizarre should not be
>allowed to crosspost to ANYTHING. In general crossposting is a bad idea.

    1) As almost anyone in talk.bizarre will no doubt verify, most cross-
posting "from" t.b actually originates outside the group (the recent startrek
unpleasantness is but one example). People who think, "Well, this ought to
appeal to anyone with a weird sense of humour" or "Gee, maybe this is just
strange enough that one of *them* will know/want to know about it" just sort
of tack on the extra group without really thinking.

>Crossposting from talk.bizarre is an especially bad idea.

    2) The most common cross-post from talk.bizarre is to alt.flame, which in
my opinion is perfectly permissible. Alt.flame is a forum for people to vent
their spleens in a soft, padded environment. If someone's flaming in talk.
bizarre, or anywhere else for that matter, they will often cross-post to alt.
flame. This is acceptable as long as they *direct*follow-ups*. If it's going to
be a flame war, leave it there. If it's going to be strange and funny, leave
it in talk.bizarre. If it's a serious followup, the person doing the following
up can change the newsgroups line (it's not that hard, guys! Really!).

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