Subject: Re: Too many groups? (was: start a news group!)
To: turnbull AT shako DOT sk DOT tsukuba DOT ac DOT jp (Stephen Turnbull)
From: David Hodges <dh AT acme DOT gen DOT nz>
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Date: 25 Feb 94 17:05:39


Stephen Turnbull wrote:
>    I disagree strongly with people worried about duplicate posts.  If
> people post installation and/or newbie questions to "help", send them
> flames and copies of "netiquette" and uuencoded TNT.

That doesn't stop them though because five minutes later another newbie
comes along and does the same thing.
I'm not worried about crossposting between the help and help.newusers
groups but I would consider posting the same message to both the newsgroups and th
the mailing list to be a problem, as I said in my previous post.

David Hodges (dh AT acme DOT gen DOT nz)