Re: Record density of crud and spam
- From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 22:30:05 -0800
CBFalconer wrote:
Michael Black wrote:
... snip ...
The original poster decided it was acceptable for his comment
about spam to be cross-posted to
comp.arch.embedded,comp.lang.c
comp.programming
alt.os.linux.ubuntu
alt.folklore.computers
It has no relevance to any of them, and really there is no
connection between any of these newsgroups.
The original was posted with follow-up set to comp.programming. The idea was to see if others were experiencing similar levels, and
what, if anything, could be done about it.
You gave no indication in your original message that you wanted to discuss solutions to the problem. You just complained about it. If you had asked about programmatic solutions to spam, that would probably have been appropriate in comp.programming (but not in the other newsgroups).
> Note that topicality,
and thus spam handling, is always on-topic.
Discussions about topicality (e.g., questions about whether a given topic is appropriate in a given newsgroup) are conventionally considered topical. But there's no question that spam is off-topic.
What point about topicality were you trying to make?
And why didn't you also post to rec.bicycles, gnu.misc.discuss, sci.math.num-analysis, and every other newsgroup in existence, where it would have been equally appropriate?
> All responses should
have been on comp.programming, and only deliberate avoidance of the
follow-up has put anything on any other newsgroups.
(In my case, I was using a newsreader that I'm not very familiar with; I didn't realize followups had been redirected.)
The original message has produced none of the desired responses.
Because it was inappropriate.
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