Re: R.I.P. Robert Jordan

Michael S. Schiffer wrote:

"Default User" <defaultuserbr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in

It does still allow newsreaders to mark messages read in all
groups. It also allows "legitimate" cases of multiple newsgroups
to have all messages available, and cut down on repeats.

In twenty years on Usenet, I'm not sure when the last time I saw a
thread where cross-group traffic was actually desirable.

I've seen plenty. There's usually a "best" group, but multiple ones
where the topic is acceptable.

(And it
doesn't seem as if a newsreader mechanism for automatically marking
future identical posts as read would be all that difficult to
implement-- have it check against poster, subject heading, date, and
first line, say.)

Whether it's possible or not, none do that I know of. Do you have
contrary evidence?

It also aids in redirecting messages. Messages that are posted
to an inappropriate newsgroup can be redirected with a cross to
both the original and the correct group, with follow-ups set to
the new one.

Thus routing traffic from group A into group B, with frequent
concomitant disruption when newsgroup cultures clash.

It can be abused, but I normally see it used effectively.

Again, a good
idea in theory that doesn't tend to work terribly well in practice.

That's not been my experience in general. Examples are POSIX questions
posted to comp.lang.c. There's a lot of confusion for newbies about
what constitutes an appropriate topic in clc. They are surprised to
find that fork() and socket() are not. Some people will tell then where
to go, others will use the procedure above.

(Especially since rerouting responses to your post doesn't mean that
respondents to the previous post will follow suit.)

True, but you've done what you can.

You give too much credit to the trolls. The troll can't really
do all that much, it requires the "regular folk" to be uncaring,
uninformed, or careless to have much of any effect.

Welcome to Usenet. :-)

You're approximately 15 years late with that.



Brian
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If televison's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who
won't shut up.
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