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- From: bud@mtek.com (Bud Hovell)
- Newsgroups: sci.anthropology
- Subject: Re: keeping groups clean
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.014633.22713@mtek.com>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 01:46:33 GMT
- References: <728080519snx@bberry.ru.ac.za>
- Reply-To: bud@mtek.com
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- karen@bberry.ru.ac.za (karen) writes:
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- >It would be really great if this anthro group could be keep up
- >standards which other groups seem to have lost some time again.
- >WIth regards to this perhaps debates on "boring" etc can be kept to
- >a more appropriate forum ..... It seems pointless to try to get
- >people to contribute to a specialist interest group when those
- >writing to it are going to resort to writing on topics which are
- >best kept out of it.
-
- Perhaps a subgroup could be created: sci.anthropology.junk
-
- The other choice -- sure-fire -- is to go for moderation. But you
- are right that a specialist group will invariably be trafficked
- by junk if left to access by those who believe their every word
- is everyone else's especial interest.
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