From: chinm@aix.rpi.edu (Mang S. Chin -- Kid Klaxon)
Subject: Re: Everyone's problems with the LNH
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 02:16:56 GMT

In article <1e9cjnINNnbk@bigboote.WPI.EDU> mikecap@gelfand.WPI.EDU (Michael Vince Caprio Jr) writes:
[mildly amusing parts deleted]
>What an inconvenience it must be for all these people to spend their spare 
>moments touching the "n" key, or putting LNH in their killfile!  I feel 
>almost ashamed that I haven't done something about it sooner...

You know...putting LNH in my killfile may alleviate some of the problem,
but there are still a lot of posts about it that don't have it.  Far as
I'm concerned, if every LNH post had the LNH prefix, I would shut up about
it.  Also, it's not like hitting 'n' is a big deal...it's hitting 'n'
a dozen times every time I read r.a.c.m. 

>But have pity for these poor souls who think they're important - and spend 
>their time reading about miscellaneous comics things - of course it's the
>LNH's fault!  They've gone out of their way to make sure that people don't
>crosspost, even going so far as to form their own newsgroup so that people
>wouldn't be so readily offended!  Shame on you, LNH!  Why didn't you go away
>like we asked!

Get your facts straight.  It has been mentioned several times
recently that it was a non-LNHer that formed the newsgroup.  I don't
know exactly how much is cross-posted, but it bothers me a great deal
that LNH material is sometimes cross-posted to r.a.c. as well.  I don't
see much cross-posting curbing when something is cross-posted to three
groups, one of which is already gone (some of us have r.a.c. forwarded
into r.a.c.m.)
 
>I feel most sorry for poor Mr. Kowling, who has to go through all the trouble
>of officially banning the LNH from the misc. newsgroup (where it obviously 
>doesn't belong.  what a silly idea!).  It's a shame when honest citizens have
>to go out and police the newsgroups on their own - especially when everyone 
>owns the net.  Who says the net doesn't belong to one person?  I think Mr. 
>Cooling should be in charge of the entire net - why, we could have comics 
>auctions all the time!!  I LOVE reading about his auction updates, but it's 
>really a bother to hit that dang "n" key when I don't want to read them, or
>really couldn't care less.  Hell, everyone should use rec.arts.comics.misc for
>fun and profit!

I think Jim Cowling is getting a little carried away.  No, I don't
think LNH stuff should be banned.  Regardless, I also don't think
that LNH is appropriate here either.  BUT if all of those posts 
had the LNH prefix and if they stopped crossposting to r.a.c.
(I still don't understand what the point of that is), I think most
of the people who vote against LNH in Jim Cowling's poll would be
satisfied.  If I don't see the stuff posted, I don't care.  I think
that would satisfy ALMOST everyone.

>Thanks for hearing me out.

I get the feeling there is some miscommunication out here...

>Mike C.

>BTW, for the satire-impaired:  This is pretty funny, flaming stuff.

Rolling in the aisles material...you should write LNH stuff.


MSC
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       "...but fortunately, the people spoke on November 3."
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