From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: general comment on CLA
Date: 1997/09/20
Date: 1997-09-20T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.874760158@merv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1997Sep19.103110.1@eisner
Larry said
<<<<I strongly agree. Those discussions need their own home (perhaps there
is such a group, but I am not familiar with it). (Off topic, I would
not mind a newsreader that totally ignored posts addressed to more than
N groups.)>>
I have investigated, and as far as I know, no newsreader has this capability.
I have on my list to hack one so it does, but goodness knows when I get
around to that.
As far as it being illogical for me to wonder whether continued
participation in CLA is worth while, I don't see that. The value of
spending time following a newsgroup, and answering articles is in
direct proportion to the signal-to-noise ratio, and for the last few
weeks, CLA has exceeded my threshhold. I used to follow a lot of
groups, including for example OS/2 and comp.lang.cobol, but after
a while they just had far too much junk in them, and now I only
follow CLA.
Most other people at ACT abandoned CLA a long time ago, on these grounds.
Really I was trying to get a sense of how people feel about these
cross-posted threads. If generally CLA folks feel they are reasonable,
then I certainly don't want to try to impose my views, but it is
certainly not illogical for me to find it too much of a waste of time
to wade through more cross-posted stuff.
On the other hand, if others generally agree, perhaps we could conduct
a cleanup campaign :-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-09-20 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-09-18 0:00 general comment on CLA Robert Dewar
1997-09-18 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1997-09-19 0:00 ` Joerg Rodemann
1997-09-19 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-09-20 0:00 ` Moderation? :-( (Was Re: general comment on CLA) Brian Rogoff
1997-09-21 0:00 ` Robert S. White
1997-09-19 0:00 ` general comment on CLA Tom Moran
1997-09-19 0:00 ` John Herro
1997-09-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-21 0:00 ` John Herro
1997-09-19 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-09-19 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-09-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1997-09-21 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1997-09-21 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1997-09-20 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
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1997-09-20 0:00 Marc Wachowitz
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