From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,bc5c0fdbfd63e56a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) Subject: Re: general comment on CLA Date: 1997/09/20 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 274107439 References: <1997Sep19.103110.1@eisner> Organization: New York University Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-09-20T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Larry said <<<> 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 :-)