nyssa@terminus.UUCP (04/03/87)
In article <1454@cadovax.UUCP> keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle) writes: >I figure it makes more sense to PAD with meaningless junk. >Then when the net GODZ realize that this 'feature' adds more traffic to the >net than it removes, maybe they'll be motivated to remove the >(#@*&(!^#%(#* feature in future revisions. The idea was to reduce repetition in postings... Many news readers have the ability to backtrack through past references, if you want to know what was said, there is no need to include any more article than needed to give a bit of flavor. Yes, it is easy to deceive. Or you could pad it with junk. Keep it up, and maybe the backbone will say that it isn't worth carrying the newsgroups where this happens. Face it, Keith, there is a lot of traffic on the net, and many sites are getting overwhelmed. Cutting traffic is a laudable goal, if it is an effort to filter out noise without censoring valid comment. Alot of repetition (as well as these huge signatures I sometimes see... There was one over 30 lines long...) is just noise. Remember how close this was to being "talk.singles"? -- James C. Armstrong, Jnr. (nicmad,ulysses,ihnp4)!terminus!nyssa "I see the carrot juice worked..." -OR- "Why? The Emperor must explain!" (Where are they from?)
michael@m-net.UUCP (Michael McClary) (04/13/87)
In article <742@terminus.UUCP> nyssa@terminus.UUCP (The Scrapyard... I'm sorry, Valeyard, force of habit, I apologize.) writes: >Face it, Keith, there is a lot of traffic on the net, and many sites >are getting overwhelmed. Cutting traffic is a laudable goal, if it >is an effort to filter out noise without censoring valid comment. >Alot of repetition (as well as these huge signatures I sometimes >see... There was one over 30 lines long...) is just noise. Indeed, cutting traffic is a laudible goal. But wouldn't having the mailer ask you if you really wanted to send all that junk, rather than dripping your post in the bit bucket with no opportunity to recover it (as some news posters do), be better bahavior? User-hostile programs produce hostile users. "I've got code in my node." | UUCP: ...!ihnp4!itivax!node!michael | AUDIO: (313) 973-8787 Michael McClary | SNAIL: 2091 Chalmers, Ann Arbor MI 48104 Above opinions are the official position of McClary Associates. Customers may have opinions of their own, which are given all the attention paid for.
nyssa@terminus.UUCP (04/29/87)
In article <1179@m-net.UUCP> michael@node.UUCP (Michael McClary) writes: >Indeed, cutting traffic is a laudible goal. But wouldn't having the mailer >ask you if you really wanted to send all that junk, rather than dripping >your post in the bit bucket with no opportunity to recover it (as some >news posters do), be better bahavior? I am surprised that your mailer is doing that... If I remember corectly, 2.11 news creates a file $HOME/.article, which it then puts in an editor for you. If the posting fails, then you have that file... (Of course, if you did include more lines than added text, then it would be easy to rewrite it, as you must therefore have not written much, eh? :-) Also, if the posting fails, I believe a file dead.article is created, although that may only apply to bad newsgroups... >User-hostile programs produce hostile users. I agree... But how much user hostility of a program is just not being familiar with the system? -- James C. Armstrong, Jnr. (nicmad,ulysses,ihnp4)!terminus!nyssa "Oh! I'm getting dizzy!" Who said it, what story?