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   Message 31 of 1,925   
   Peter Ceresole to Paul Esposito   
   Re: [OT] Deterioration in Usenet   
   14 Oct 03 23:42:53   
   
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   From: peter@cara.demon.co.uk   
      
   In article ,   
   humanityfirst@hotmail.com (Paul Esposito) wrote:   
      
   >Those of us who just use the Googel Interface don't know what groups   
   >posters are receiving from, so although we could delete irrelevant   
   >newsgroups manually, it might mot get back to the poster.   
   >   
   >Also sometimes we pay little attention to the other NGs that are on   
   >the post. When I started using Usenet, I wasn't even aware of this   
   >aspect of posting.   
      
   Oh hell... I carefully set the reply-to and Google *still* sprays it all   
   over the place.   
      
   That's what is going wrong with Usenet and why it's all going to hell;   
   people posting via abortions like Google Groups, using browsers instead of   
   proper newsreading programs- which is what they ought to be using. So   
   nobody knows what they're doing or has any control over where their stuff   
   goes. And the result is a growing mess.   
      
   So that's why it's all getting worse; the users are just getting terminally   
   sloppy.   
      
   Follow-ups set.   
      
   --   
   Peter   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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