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Re: INFO : Artificial Justification for Info Group
Hello,
In an eloquent manner, Ajay Shah <ajay@mercury.aichem.arizona.edu> elucidated:
>
>After being pointed to the fact that the SRH newsgroup does not have
>enough traffic at this time (average less than 8-10 non-reorg related posts
>per day), it seems that some of the proponents have taken upon themselves
>to increase traffic on SRH....notice 5-9 postings per person per day,
>mostly repetitious, generating a set of responses.
>
>I hope that the intelegent readers of this newsgroup will use the "Skip"
>or "Next" key and keep reading the useful material, seeing through this
>little trick, in addition to personal vendetta, petty politics and
>repetitious posts.
It seems clear from this post and the ones entitled:
INFO : Stats for SRH Postings in 1996
Info : SRH and Politics : Charter Shows the Way
and the ones that were approved by the moderator with the titles:
INFO : Vajrasuchi upanishhad
INFO : Bow to the Sun! (suuryaashhTaka)
that the moderator does not understand the purpose of an "Info" newsgroup, or
in this case an "INFO:" posting.
Everything that someone posts to a newsgroup is "information".
If someone posts a one-line message saying:
" Fred, you don't know what you are talking about. "
then this is an informational post - Fred is being informed that he doesn't
know what he is talking about. :-)
The .info suffix for a newsgroup is really short for "Informational
Announcements".
An example of such an announcement would be:
" Subject: INFO: Vajrasuchi Upanishad study group
The Vajrasuchi Upanishad study group wll be meeting every Saturday at 3 a.m.
in Room 108 at Silly University. Everyone is welcome to join us. "
OR
" Subject: INFO: New Translation of Vajrasuchi Upanishad
Joe Blow's new translation of the Vajrasuchi Upanishad is now available from
McWeirdo Press. "
Posting evidence for one's arguments in the middle of a discussion is NOT
"info" any more than any else's posts in that discussion.
And the two postings from other readers that were approved by the moderator
are not "INFO:" postings, they are simply normal posts for a religion
newsgroup.
PS On July 1st, the moderator wrote:
>Each post, if it is the "first" in the thread, contain labels such as :
>INFO : Subject Title for posts seeking information
which fits neither Internet conventions nor any of the subsequent INFO: posts!
Cheers,
Ken <*>
kstuart@mail.telis.org
"The Dow that can crash is not the eternal Dow." - Lao Stuart
