Re: Gregs Auto Thingy

From: "Roy Pollard" <plod@ntlworld.com>

Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 11:40:01 +0000

They don't bother me in the slightest - I think the fact that Gregs doing
something that promotes the hobby is a good thing and should continue.
I can understand how it might bother some people as the sheer regularity of
actually SEEING useful posts on this newsgroup might be unnerving.

:-p

Roy
Day One
www.firstday.co.uk

"MadCentral" <madcentral@aol.com> wrote in message
news:20010210180600.08855.00000324@ng-co1.aol.com...
> Hi All,
>
> I wondered if it was just me that finds Greg's autoposted snippets of
games
> annoying on Rec.Games.PBM.
>
> I've got to admit I cant see any reason why these messages shouldn't be
here.
> They are on topic, helpful and (I assume) up to date.  Yet I still find
them
> annoying.
>
> Greg's quite reasonable about this sort of thing.  If lots of people find
them
> out of place I expect he'd stop them.  Then again, if everybody thinks
they are
> dead cool I'll shut up and stop whining. <grin>
>
> I think what bugs me is that these guys, if they want announcements,
should
> place them themselves.  Greg's autoposting, while clever, just reads like
spam
> to me for the most part because its so impersonal, and not directly from
the
> parties concerned.  I mean this as no insult to Greg, who I am sure is
trying
> to be helpful.
>
> Any comments?
>
> Steve  T.

References

Gregs Auto Thingy
madcentral@aol.com (MadCentral)
Sat, 10 Feb 2001 23:06:00 +0000