Crossposting and misc.activism.progressive.
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An E-Mail exchange with Harel indicates that the massive cross-posting is intended to be an "advertising blitz" to students newly arrived for the fall semester. Personally, I find this excuse worthless. I agree wholeheartedly. Harel likes to disguise all his leftist browbeating as "advertizing" some "valuable resource." I will be glad when this guy
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One of the selling points of m.a.p while the vote was going on was that it would cut down on crossposting. Instead it has gotten steadily worse. I’m not out to point fingers or assess blame. I would just like some restraint. An E-Mail exchange with Harel indicates that the massive cross-posting is intended to be an "advertising blitz" to students newly arrived for the fall semester. Personally, I find this excuse worthless.
I agree wholeheartedly. Harel likes to disguise all his leftist browbeating as "advertizing" some "valuable resource." I will be glad when this guy a. gets his degree b. gets thrown out for not getting decent grades (since he spends his waking hours scanning/posting Noam Chomsky articles) and then has to go out into the real world (TM) and PAY for an account on some system. I would like to see the look on his face as the sys admin explains to him that his fees are going up and up because a group of idiots want to "advertize" their "resources" to the tune of several megabytes a day… Cheers, Chris — Chris Mauritz |Meetpoint Station BBS – Public Access Unix Copyright (C) 1991 |Join us…We’re friendly dammit! 
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One of the selling points of m.a.p while the vote was going on was that it would cut down on crossposting. Instead it has gotten steadily worse. I’m not out to point fingers or assess blame. I would just like some restraint.
An E-Mail exchange with Harel indicates that the massive cross-posting is intended to be an "advertising blitz" to students newly arrived for the fall semester. Personally, I find this excuse worthless. — "If a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, is it always the book?" — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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From news.lists: TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY AMOUNT OF CROSSPOSTING A companion posting explains the statistics and the algorithms that produced them. +– Estimated total number of people who read the group, worldwide. | +– Actual number of readers in sampled population | | +– Propagation: how many sites receive this group at all | | | +– Recent traffic (messages per month) | | | | +– Recent traffic (kilobytes per month) | | | | | +– Crossposting percentage | | | | | | +– Cost ratio: $US/month/reader | | | | | | | +– Share: % of newsrders | | | | | | | | who read this group. V V V V V V V V 2 9600 220 61% 296 2304.4 84% 0.28 0.6% misc.activism.progressive That’s #2! The only group ahead of m.a.p is news.announce.newusers and that is a low volume group with high readership. One of the selling points of m.a.p while the vote was going on was that it would cut down on crossposting. Instead it has gotten steadily worse. I’m not out to point fingers or assess blame. I would just like some restraint. I was an avid reader of alt.activism, but I find I can no longer keep up. It isn’t just the number of crossposts from m.a.p, but their length. I’m not sure that I’ll be able to afford to continue getting alt.activism. Yes, some of us *pay* for our connection. Have pity on us. Thanks. — uunet!sequent!ether!stevef I am the NRA Steven R. Fordyce Not all activists are leftists … We have an energy policy: the free market.
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