In need of c.l.p.discussion

[Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters]

Rune Steffensen <r.steffensen at c2i.net> wrote previously:
|Would it not be enough for one poster in each thread to be sensible and
|Xfut? Decent news clients would then handle the followup header correct
|on subsequent replies.

Nope, doesn't work that way.  When a particular poster redirects to the
hypothetical discussion group, only responses to that specific post get
redirected--and that specific post almost always says only "hey guys,
let's move the discussion"... which, of course, no one has any interest
in responding to (neither those who agree nor those who
disagree--there's not much more to be said).

Moreover, even in the rare case that a post with content people want to
resond to gets the redirect, that basically just kills it, because
(practically) nobody bother to follow the discussion group.  A response
to the group redirect is about the same thing as a redirect to
/dev/null.  Perhaps one might reasonably want many threads to go there,
but those in the discussion usually don't.

Yours, Lulu...

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