Re: Off topic posting

From: "Karen J. Cravens" <silver@phoenyx.net>

Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 00:00:00 +0000

On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Sam Palmer wrote:

SP>This thread is on the same line as the ASR FAQ, posting off topic
SP>material on a newsgroup.
SP>
SP>Can I post a PBeM newsletter on this newsgroup with out being flamed?
SP>
SP>If I said that I used it to inform new and interest new player.

Why would it be off topic?  The ASR FAQ is a FAQ for a different
newsgroup; its content is not off topic, it's just misleading to have it
in that format without either (a) crossposting to both groups and .answers
and setting followups to a.s.r, or (b) just putting it in a simple upfront
ad/announcement/press-release type format, since that's all it is.

Newsletters about PBeM games are on-topic, so long as you put a consistent
tag in the subject so anyone who's not interested can kill it without
having to killfile *you*.  And it's politer if you don't make it
outrageously long, since some people have post-download scorefiles, but
there are some fairly long ones posted here now and again, so this froup
has a higher-than-average definition of "outrageously."

(Unless you average in alt.binaries.* newsgroups, but those skew a lot
more than averages, so we'll just leave it at that.)

References

Off topic posting
Sam Palmer <Sam@Bitton.homeway.demon.co.uk>
Fri, 20 Aug 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Referenced By

Off topic posting
Sam Palmer <Sam@Bitton.homeway.demon.co.uk>
Fri, 20 Aug 1999 00:00:00 +0000