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From: rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: net.sources going to the dogs!
Message-ID: <661@opus.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 1-Aug-84 21:15:09 EDT
Article-I.D.: opus.661
Posted: Wed Aug  1 21:15:09 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 4-Aug-84 03:09:39 EDT
References: <649@pyuxqq.UUCP>
Organization: NBI, Boulder
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>What's happening to net.sources???
>The newsgroup that is suppesed to be for posting source code is  being
>used for anything people feel like!  There are wanted newsgroups for source
>requests.  They do not belong in net.sources.  Neither do product
>announcements, help requests, etc.  Something should be done about this!

Sure - great idea!  And if you look at the parent article (649@pyuxqq),
you'll see that it was posted to both net.flame AND net.general.  Come on
now; if you're going to post a complaint about people abusing newsgroups,
at least obey netiquette to the point that you don't abuse newsgroups in
your complaint!  (1) DON'T flame in net.general; that's not what it's for.
(2) NEVER include net.general in a multiple-group posting.  If people
understood the conventions themselves as well as they expect everyone else
to do, problems would be few and far between.
-- 
Dick Dunn	{hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd		(303)444-5710 x3086
	...Keep your day job 'til your night job pays.