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   Col to Steve B   
   Re: Proposal uk.media.tv.red-dwarf   
   03 Feb 08 06:49:28   
   
   XPost: uk.media.tv.misc   
   From: reddwarfer2@tiscali.co.uk   
      
   "Steve B"  wrote in message   
   news:e8baq35f9l367sjih1n1phl49c8qq1s9qc@4ax.com...   
   > On Sat, 2 Feb 2008 16:46:37 +0000, Edward Cowling London UK   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >>In message <47a49b39_1@mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com>, Col   
   >> writes   
   >   
   >    
   >   
   >>>If you are worried about low traffic on ATVRD then the creation   
   >>>of another newsgroup with a simillar name won't do anything.   
   >>>If anything it would diminish ATVRD even further by splitting   
   >>>the pitifully low number of postings betwen two groups.   
   >>   
   >>In it's best days it just seemed to be full of kids arguing about   
   >>signature lengths and what was or wasn't on topic. For a fun series it   
   >>seemed to have a hell hole of a news group.   
   >   
   > Ah, those were the days...   
   >   
   > Damned kids these days and their lack of respect for 4 line sigs!   
      
   Thankfully the net-cops have long since departed.   
   You do need some kind of guidelines for posting otherwise things   
   get out of hand, like no crossposting, ahem....   
      
   But some people took it way too seriously.   
   Like as has already been mentioned, it's supossed to be a *fun* series.   
   --   
   Col   
      
   Steal a spaceship and head for the sun,   
   Shoot the stars with a lemonade ray gun.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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