[net.news] Multiple postings

bmg@mck-csc.UUCP (Bernard M. Gunther) (10/10/85)

> A good example of such antisocial behavior are the recent articles by
> tektronix!tekig3!tekadg!davidl entitled "Unix, Unixpeople, Usenix - from a
> non-compunerd's point of view...".  

> It happens.  Proposing to prevent a poster from posting a single article to
> multiple newsgroups, as did the original article to which I was responding,
> will just make it happen that much more often.
> 
> 	Mark of the Valley of Roses
> ...!{decvax,linus,ima,ihnp4}!bbncca!aoa!mbr

It seems to me the easiest way to guide people who do this is to fill their
mailboxes when they.  The idea is called peer pressure.  It tends to work
in most cases.  If it doesn't, maybe a note to their SA or news SA.  If
the problem was repeated *many* times, perhaps the site which connects them
to the net should be talked to.  If this much pressure on a person to conform
to the guidelines doen't work, it probably isn't a loss if they go away.

Bernie Gunther