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Don't Stop with the [News] postings already!!!

  • Subject: Don't Stop with the [News] postings already!!!
  • From: Ron House <house@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 13:12:03 +1000
  • In-reply-to: <pan.2006.08.19.05.07.14.978574@gmail.com>
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: University of Queensland
  • References: <LLednXVkNq_WynnZnZ2dnUVZ_rqdnZ2d@comcast.com> <pan.2006.08.19.05.07.14.978574@gmail.com>
  • User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050927 Debian/1.7.8-1sarge3
  • Xref: news.mcc.ac.uk comp.os.linux.advocacy:1142864
Kelsey Bjarnason wrote:
On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 07:54:46 -0400, mlw wrote:


I know you probably mean well, but it is behaving more like spam than actual
advocacy. It is getting in the way of seeing/finding discussions.



If you feel compelled to post [News] could you batch all your stories in one or two messages a day?


Why?  He's doing them in a consistent format.  Don't like 'em?  Filter
'em.  End of problem.



The fact of the matter is these MS spambots don't like the advocacy of so many articles in favour of linux, so they are trying a bit of astroturfing in the (I hope vain) hope that the news is stopped. They haven't fooled me.


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Ron House       house@xxxxxxxxxx
                http://www.sci.usq.edu.au/staff/house

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