walton@ametek.UUCP (Steve Walton) (12/17/86)
Sorry if this has been mentioned before, but...Starting to appear in comp.sys.amiga on the USENET are messages cross-posted from the ARPAnet by the good people at Rutgers who put together the ARPAnet Info-Amiga Digest. Since the editors of said digest cannot put everything which appears on the USENET in it, it is very possible that a USENET-posted response to a message forwarded from Rutgers will never be seen by the original poster. So, if you USENET'ers see a message posted to comp.sys.amiga by host!user@rutgers.rutgers.edu, please play it safe and CC: the original poster on your response. I missed something intended for me because of this. Thank you for your attention. Steve Walton Stephen Walton ARPA: ametek!walton@csvax.caltech.edu Ametek Computer Research Div. BITNET: walton@caltech 610 N. Santa Anita Ave. UUCP: ...!ucbvax!sun!megatest!ametek!walton Arcadia, CA 91006 USA 818-445-6811
lear@topaz.UUCP (Eliot Lear) (12/18/86)
Due to the volume of the list and the fact that I have a *REAL* job, I cannot post EVERY message to Info-Amiga. I am not willing to post superfluous information because most of us just don't have time for every message that says, "Yeah, I've seen that bug too." Under that same category, I attempt to "DEWidget" postings if I am also posting the original message. This allows me to post more messages in a digest which I have been told should *never* exceed 20000 characters. Also, if a message is intended for a specific person, that specific person should ALWAYS be CC'd and the poster should take time to consider whether or not that message is of general interest to the entire readership. Also, I am about one week behind comp.sys.amiga so the response to your message may still be in the queue. I hope this clears things up about Info-Amiga. Eliot Lear, Info-Amiga Moderator
pes@ux63.bath.ac.uk (Smee) (03/11/88)
I'm sure this has been said before, but, another plea for thought. An awful lot of stuff gets crossposted to both of comp.sys.amiga and comp.sys.atari.st. In fact, my impression is that it's a more frequent crossposting set than any other pair of comp.sys'es. Very little of it is really of *general* interest to owners of both machines; and such chains almost invariably degenerate into pure noise. (Don't know why we don't get along with each other, but there you go.) I read the newsgroups for the signal; and I don't know how everyone else feels, but I find it both annoying and inconvenient when the signal to noise ratio drops off. People (like me) who are actually interested in both machines as individual machines will read both newsgroups anyway, so you're not going to miss anyone who cares what's going on by not crossposting -- and you'll probably enhance the average information content by resisting the impulse. It would probably also help if, when putting in a followup, you check to see if the original was crossposted, and think carefully about whether the chain has gotten to a point where that should be broken. (I'm guilty of being lazy here; will be more careful in future.) Come on folks, let's help each other out; increase the percentage of useful information, and cut out the noise. Cheers, Paul