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From: [email protected] (Jim Rising)
Subject: A modest request
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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I am finding the volume of stuff on rec.sport.baseball
overwhelming -- ca. 200 posts/day. An effect of this is
that a backlog builds up, and many posts get dumped from
my system. I could probably fix that--but don't have the
time to read them all in any event. My guess is that mine
is a common problem. I have some ideas that would help:
1. Each person generally post no more than one article/day.
2. Limit the extent to which previous posts are reproduced
in posts.
3. Don't post mindless `woofs,' or `anti-woofs,' e.g. "The
Jays are best!" or "The Jays suck."
4. Don't respond to mindless posts, e.g. "Jack Morris is
a better pitcher than Frank Viola because he's won a
World Series." I know that you can use the `n' key to
get by these posts, but they bump interesting posts from
my disk.
5. use the goddamn shift key etc it makes your posts easier
to read
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Name: Jim Rising
Mail: Dept. Zoology, Univ. Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1A1
UUCP: uunet!attcan!utzoo!rising
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