russell@imtec.co.uk (Russell Brown) (05/25/88)
In article <10500003@uiucdcsm> roberts@uiucdcsm.cs.uiuc.edu writes: > > REWARD For LOST PUPPY >............... He was last seen around Spaulding Park area because >I live near there on Sherwood Terrace in Champaign ....... Hmmmm. I havn't seen it here in the U.K. Have you tried France or Germany? Maybe it climbed on a Quantas Jumbo and is cracking tubes on a beach in Oz? Oh, hold on! this posting went ***Worldwide*** - the puppy probably isn't on the planet then. How about asking that nice man Gorby if his chaps going to Mars will have a squint round for it?? --End of snide remarks and on to the serious bit. Seriously though, This is just the latest example of the junk posted with no thought to the distribution. How about the backbone junking articles without a Distribution line or at least inserting a default distribution that is not world? Most of the "condo/dishwasher/tickets for a concert tomorrow in New Jersey for sale" articles are posted without *any* form of distribution line at all. Junking them at the backbone would at least limit the propogation. Right, that's got the tin open.....here come the worms! -- --------------------------------------------------------------- | Russell Brown | Voice: 0733-66852 | | Imtec plc | EMAIL: russell@imtec.co.uk | | 7 Fitzwilliam Suite, | UUCP: | | Broadway Court, Peterborough, | ...mcvax!ukc!imtec!russell | | Britain, PE1 1SQ | | ---------------------------------------------------------------
rcopm@koel.rmit.oz (Paul Menon) (05/28/88)
in article <714@imtec.co.uk>, russell@imtec.co.uk (Russell Brown) says: > Xref: koel misc.wanted:144 news.admin:1425 > > In article <10500003@uiucdcsm> roberts@uiucdcsm.cs.uiuc.edu writes: >> >> REWARD For LOST PUPPY >>............... He was last seen around Spaulding Park area because >>I live near there on Sherwood Terrace in Champaign ....... > > Hmmmm. I havn't seen it here in the U.K. Oh come on now! Couldn't you ask Robin Hood if he has seen it lately? >Have you tried France or.. It could be boozing in Champagne.. that's where it was last seen. > Germany? Maybe it climbed on a Quantas Jumbo and is cracking tubes > on a beach in Oz? Haven't seen it in any Melbourne pub, but then I haven't been looking... There is a pub here called "The Loaded Dog", but they don't usually serve Champaign. At least this is humorous, sob stories about an undergrad having financial difficulties in the States isn't. They don't have such problems in Ethiopia or Palau. Maybe this is why we don't hear any gripes from them. I mean, when you're an affluent society, who needs outsiders, eh? Paul Menon. Dept of Communication & Electronic Engineering, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, 124 Latrobe St, Melbourne, 3000, Australia ACSnet: rcopm@koel UUCP: ...!seismo!munnari!koel.rmit.oz!rcopm CSNET: rcopm@koel.rmit.oz ARPA: rcopm%koel.rmit.oz@seismo BITNET: rcopm%koel.rmit.oz@CSNET-RELAY PHONE: +61 3 660 2619. Disclaimer? My mind changes like the wind, ooops, too late!
todd) (05/30/88)
In article <714@imtec.co.uk>, russell@imtec.co.uk (Russell Brown) writes: > How about the backbone junking articles without a Distribution line or > at least inserting a default distribution that is not world? I would like to see a news posting program that does not have the default of "world". It is just too easy for some people to pound on the return key, and walk across the prompts, making a global post. If they had the default be local/state/nation/global that would be better, as it would cause someone to have to deliberately create a global posting. > Right, that's got the tin open.....here come the worms! This is true, the last time I suggested this, I recieved mail from a few *rude* system admins, telling me I was preventing freedom of speech, and who am I to tell them how to be a site admin. Oh well... ----------------------------------------------------------------------- + uop!todd@uunet.uu.net + + cogent!uop!todd@lll-winken.arpa + + {backbone}!ucbvax!ucdavis!uop!todd + -----------------------------------------------------------------------