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.) Don't know about the rest of you, but I read the newsgroups for the signal; and it is 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