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Subject:Reading every post? (was Why so tense?) From:Steve Fouts <sfouts -at- ELLISON -dot- SC -dot- TI -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 3 Dec 1993 09:01:06 CST
Bonni Graham is widely rumored to have written the following:
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|} BTW (it's peripherally related), why do we (and I'm including myself) feel
|} compelled to read every message sent?
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I don't. I monitor about twenty groups on a wide range of topics on Usenet,
plus this one as mail reflected bitnet. There can be hundreds of messages
per day posted to some of these forums. I skim the subject lines for topics
that interest me (or new topics) and I trash the rest.
Even if this were the only group that I monitored, I wouldn't read every
post. I wouldn't read most of the posts. There is only one group that I
read every single post, and that is alt.quotations. Two reasons; most posts
are very short (sound bite me!), and even an off topic quoter might have a
gem buried in their .signature.
Hey, don't flip around. We'll be right back.
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