[net.general] Fix for net.unwanted.requests.on.net.sources problem

david@ukma.UUCP (David Herron, NPR Lover) (12/19/84)

[A sacrificial line.      (please don't eat me!)]

> From: shawn@mit-eddie.UUCP (Shawn McKay)
> Newsgroups: net.sources
> Subject: Re: Fix for net.unwanted.requests.on.net.sources problem
> Message-ID: <3313@mit-eddie.UUCP>
> Date: Sat, 15-Dec-84 16:01:58 EST
> References: <61@tekadg.UUCP>

Ok, since you were so nice to kindly ask for no flames, I'll try.

> Since people were VERY rude to me when I posted my requests to
> net.sources, Iam starting to question the usefulness of the
> newsgroup itself, ...

Ok, maybe it's not the best group.

> ... it's not me feeling that a newsgroup should
> be so tightly limited, and that it is really at all called for
> to be rude to someone who has gone so FAR as to post something
> to perhaps the wrong news group. I am not going to post ANYTHING
> to net.wanted.sources, less you can show me that there is an equal
> base of people reading that news group. I don't, so allready you
> have lost.

Or maybe it is you who have lost.  Societies don't work very well
unless the conventions (i.e. laws) are followed (at least most of the time).
If you don't agree with that then I don't want you in my society.
(It is only in my best interest to kick when conventions are not
followed.  It makes it more likely for them to be followed next time).
There are apparently a lot of people on the net who feel that way.

As for readership.  Well, sharing software is a two way street.
You get some and you give some.  It's only fair.  If you don't
read net.wanted.sources then you are not making yourself (and your
software library) available for other people to use.  The name
of the game here is sharing.  Otherwise there wouldn't be a net.sources.

Usenet is a society itself.  The game in usenet is to post messages
to the correct newsgroup.  This helps everybody.  The person
who doesn't want to look at a lot of sources but would like to
help people find sources would read only net.wanted.sources.  So
when you posted to the wrong group you missed a potential audience.
(I don't know how many).  But thats somewhat beside the point.  When
readnews gets around to net.sources for me I like to look at sources.
It is irritating when somebody is posting a request.

> The next person who sends me a rude message from this news group
> will be written out of my will! And as for another news group
> for the LESS EDUCATED folk out there who are more apt to be rude
> in such cases, I think this is a great idea, a sort of playpen for
> the kiddies. The perhaps the adults can get something useful done.
 
> Reply to this with a flame, and I will post it directly to the
> great bit bucket in the sky, (without reading it), reply to me
> as you should reply to any user of this news group, or any other
> news group, and I will reply the same. Lets have some manners back
> to the net, eh?

Sure, why dont we?  It'd be great.
 
> 		Yours In FireFighting,
> 		   -- Shawn
 
> Uucp: mit-eddie!shawn
> Arpa: Shawn at Mit-Mc
 
 
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