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From: jmkinnib@watarts.uwaterloo.ca (Ghostboy)
Subject: Re: Lesbian feminists?  (was: same old)
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Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 20:22:44 GMT
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On Tue, 11 Jun 1996 05:47:25 GMT, deb5@midway.uchicago.edu (Daniel von
Brighoff) annoyed the censors with:

>In article <31bbbf01.79224031@news.uwaterloo.ca>,
>Ghostboy <jmkinnib@watarts.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
>>On Mon, 10 Jun 1996 02:57:12 GMT, deb5@midway.uchicago.edu (Daniel von
>>Brighoff) annoyed the censors with:
>>
>>>Can anyone contributing to this thread please explain to me why it is
>>>being crossposted to sci.lang?
>>>
>>>Before crossposting to a newsgroup--even merely as a follow-up to 
>>>someone else's article--please read the FAQ to determine whether or not 
>>>your article will be appropriate there.  With a little consideration, 
>>>maybe we can put an end to this recent rash of off-topic postings to 
>>>sci.lang.
>>
>>Ah, come on, a little anarchy never killed anyone.....
>
>No, but it really annoyed the bejeezus out of some of them.

not necessarily a bad thing.

>
>>and if you really wanna stop crossposts....dont respond to them
>
>Where on earth did you get the idea that that stops them?  I've held 
>off from responding to them for weeks in the hopes that the Clue Fairy
>will eventually wave her magic wand among the crossposters, but they 
>keep coming back like a bad case of Good Times.

you missed the point, the world is full of stupid people..thats a
given..but you just made yourself part of the problem.
personally I find crossposts a nice break in the day.
I mean, lets not be too neurotic..this is JUST a newsgroup.

>
>>...or
>>if you do..take your newsgroup out of the header when you do....buts
>>thats kinda sneaky...
>
>All that does is make it more difficult to gauge the response to my 
>pleas. 

oh, well 
I can tell you from experience, IT WONT EVER STOP.
until the internet is regulated....and that would be a sad day.

> I'm starting from the (possibly naive) assumption that those
>at fault don't understand why what they're doing is inappropriate.  

Some dont, but most who dont, dont understand enough about the
software they are useing to stop.

Most either do it to bug people, are trying to make a buck, or just
dont care if it annoys someone else.

lets face it, you can usually tell by the subject line whether you
want to read it, and you always ...or at least in most cases have the
option to just....not read it...and there are things called kill
files...after all.

>Now 
>I'm expected to read alt.postmodernism if I want to explain to others 
>why they should bother with elementary netiquette?

you can try....but I doubt it would work...since most people who
crosspost dont even read most of the newsgroups they send to, if any.

>
>I'm not trying to sound like some raving priss.  Killing up to half
>the threads in sci.lang is not a big deal, but if I can avoid having
>to do it by a quick post to the handful of people responsible, why
>shouldn't I give it a shot?

because, you have to crosspost....like we are doing now....to do
it...and then you are just another off-topic posting... unless you are
posting to alt.crossposters.die.die.die....or something.

Isnt irony great?
