bzs@bucsd.UUCP (Barry Shein) (02/04/86)
It seems to me that more and more of the network bandwidth within groups is being used by arguments as to whether or not some message was appropriate for a group. One recent case was an invitation to go read an article about floating point benchmarking in another group, the invitation was maybe one screenful long. I think it caused about a dozen or so messages which filtered through for at least a week thereafter with rebuttals etc about whether or not it should have been posted (in net.math, which in my opinion was not that outrageous a place to post the INVITATION, not the article.) This is not the first time, in that group there are a few people who love to jump on anything they deem inappropriate as if such behavior were in general a good idea. Other groups have the same self-appointed guardians of the one true faith. I was just wondering if whoever keeps the netiquette article might consider adding a suggestion about using common sense with such complaints as they almost always cause more traffic then they are intended to suppress, probably even in the long run given the moving target of an audience they address. I felt like posting this to net.general but I suspect it would generate a few million 'inappropriate' responses. Maybe this is the wrong group also but how far off could it be? -Barry Shein, (inappropriate at) Boston University