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From: Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.intel,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.unix.sys5.r4,comp.unix.misc,comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.misc
Subject: Re:PowerPC
Date: 16 Feb 1995 17:26:15 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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Message-ID: <3i01ro$2u3@park.uvsc.edu>
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Bruce Schardt <bschardt@silcom.com> wrote:
] I am reading this thread on comp.sys.powerpc.
]
] Why in gods name is this stuff cross posted here? I cannot
] remember the last time I saw a PowerPC specific posting.
Probably because the original thread was posted in comp.sys.powerpc.
What does dial-up-X have to do with the PowerPC?
The problem with cross-posted threads is that you can't identify
the groups where the thread is being read by the participants, so
you can't safely reduce the group list without potentially cutting
out participants. One would have expected the posting in one of
the comp.windows.x.* groups, or comp.protocols.* (ppp perhaps).
The mutation of a thread to no longer match its subject (in this
case, the mutation to a discussion of "the availability of ISDN",
and thence to "what does the availability of ISDN mean in terms
of phisicality") poses similar problems in losing participants.
A real problem is that subscription is by group, which is only
loosely coupled to area-of-interest, that coupling being dependent
largely on the classification skills of the original poster.
Luckily, there is the ability to kill a thread in modern news
readers, and while it is not ideal, it does solve the problem
after it is detected.
That's why.
There's probably a master's thesis in informatics in there
somewhere if someone wanted to pursue it.
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.