David Brown
2024-08-23 07:05:19 UTC
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want from any time you want if you have something you want to say.
They were requests, not commands or demands.One, please do not necropost.
Who appointed you God of All Usenet? I say, reply to any thread youwant from any time you want if you have something you want to say.
Any time you enter a social setting, it is simply common politeness to
follow the conventions of the group, at least approximately. Usenet has
very little in the way of enforced rules, and relies on mutual respect
amongst its members, and I do not think that is too much to ask for from
fellow human beings. Different groups have different norms - I'm sure
there are groups were necroposting is common practice and where nobody
bothers reading other peoples' posts, so formatting for ease of reading
doesn't matter.
Post to a Usenet group if you have something to say that you think might
be of interest to one or more people in the group. Usenet is littered
with dead groups that used to be active places full of discussions
amongst people brought together by a common interest in a particular
topic. Some groups die out as regular members age and new potential
members have moved to web-based forums like Reddit or Stack Overflow, or
other media - that's just the way these things go. Others die out
because some people think that their personal "right" to say whatever
they want, wherever they want, trumps other people's right not to have
to listen to their crap. Signal to noise ratio drops as the ration
members move elsewhere.
I am not hugely fussy - but I'd say post anything you want as long as it
is at least /vaguely/ relevant and of plausible interest to at least one
other group member. Necroposting 180 lines with bad formatting in order
to comment about knowing someone who worked at NASA is of no conceivable
relevance or interest to anyone. It's just rude.
Following your reasoning, I shouldn't comment on the Declaration of
Independence because it's purged from short-term usenet spools.
You are not following any reasoning at all.Independence because it's purged from short-term usenet spools.
Two, please follow standard Usenet conventions for formatting your
posts.
Nothing like picking the finest of nits.posts.
easier for other people to read your posts. /You/ did it - it is not
onerous, and is the default for pretty much every Usenet client. It is
hard to comprehend how someone could look at a social group and see
their common practices, habits and interests, and decide that they will
go out of their way to be different, for no other reason than trying to
be disruptive.