Let's stay On Topic
Feb 19th 2003, 5:50 pm
#16
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Re: Let's stay On Topic
Lothar Kimmeringer wrote:
>
> "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" schrieb:
>
> >The situation concerning Iraq is on
> >many minds these days - both European and American - why should we not
> >discuss it here?
>
> Because it's off topic here. This is a newsgroups about traveling
> to europe. If you want to be on topic you should post to a newsgroup
> like rec.travel.adventure.iraq, but only posts about travelling to
> Iraq not the political things. As Bruce already pointed out, there
> are plenty of politic-focused groups out there.
But none of them deal with quite the issues addressed here. (There's no
way of eliminationg the trolls, and theirs are the only truly "off
topic" posts - I agree we should not respond to them, but people do.)
Considering the diversity of the posters participating, apparently most
of us consider discussion of international relationships apropos to a
group about international travel. Complaining about other posters just
adds more off-topic threads, it's not going to eliminate the
discussions.
>
> Regards, Lothar
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>
> Always remember: The answer is forty-two, there can only be wrong
> questions!
>
> "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" schrieb:
>
> >The situation concerning Iraq is on
> >many minds these days - both European and American - why should we not
> >discuss it here?
>
> Because it's off topic here. This is a newsgroups about traveling
> to europe. If you want to be on topic you should post to a newsgroup
> like rec.travel.adventure.iraq, but only posts about travelling to
> Iraq not the political things. As Bruce already pointed out, there
> are plenty of politic-focused groups out there.
But none of them deal with quite the issues addressed here. (There's no
way of eliminationg the trolls, and theirs are the only truly "off
topic" posts - I agree we should not respond to them, but people do.)
Considering the diversity of the posters participating, apparently most
of us consider discussion of international relationships apropos to a
group about international travel. Complaining about other posters just
adds more off-topic threads, it's not going to eliminate the
discussions.
>
> Regards, Lothar
> --
> Lothar Kimmeringer E-Mail: [email protected]
> PGP-encrypted mails preferred (Key-ID: 0x8BC3CD81)
>
> Always remember: The answer is forty-two, there can only be wrong
> questions!
Feb 20th 2003, 5:38 am
#17
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Re: Let's stay On Topic
On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 09:56:24 -0000, "Deep Floyd Mars"
wrote:
>There is not really such thing as "on topic" in Usenet land. It's a
>completely free forum. If you don't like the topic, don't click on it.
Not quite true. In the past, and to some extent today, one can still
complain to a poster's ISP that he posts wildly off-topic per the
charter (for groups that have a charter) and is disruptive to the
normal course of the group, and the ISP will yank the poster's
account.
************* DAVE HATUNEN ([email protected]) *************
* Tucson Arizona, out where the cacti grow *
* My typos & mispellings are intentional copyright traps *
wrote:
>There is not really such thing as "on topic" in Usenet land. It's a
>completely free forum. If you don't like the topic, don't click on it.
Not quite true. In the past, and to some extent today, one can still
complain to a poster's ISP that he posts wildly off-topic per the
charter (for groups that have a charter) and is disruptive to the
normal course of the group, and the ISP will yank the poster's
account.
************* DAVE HATUNEN ([email protected]) *************
* Tucson Arizona, out where the cacti grow *
* My typos & mispellings are intentional copyright traps *
