news URLs

[Stephen Allen]

Lloyd D Budd wrote:

> On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 20:05, Stephen Allen wrote:


>>You didn't mention, urls of news items, I had checked before I asked...
>>you didn't exclude, it though. No matter, it not a big issue, it appears most 
>>don't seem to mind news urls being posted. :))
> 
> 
> I tried to mention it, but obviously I chose the wrong key words ;-)  In
> my post that I reference above, I list MLP as a small 'annoyance'. The
> term originates from kuro5hin:

Ah kuro5hin, never could get into that zine/website...

<snip definition of MLP>

> Specifically the sentence, "Do NOT post bare links, at least write a
> short bit about why following this link would be interesting." seems
> appropriate from TLUG as well.  In fact, regardless of how ineloquently
> I, Emir, and others  have pursued this topic, what appears to be the
> effect in the quality of some of the postings is appreciated!

I don't think I've ever seen a link/url posted here, without at least an 
explanation in the subject, or in the body. Maybe one or two occurrences have 
happened, but by far I'm confident most have had an explanation.

> I appreciate all aspects of TLUG, and do often rely on it for some of my
> news.  In fact, I have been trying to only pull information lately, with
> the exception of TLUG and newscan, because I have always found there are
> just too many interesting things going on out there.  It gets worse the
> more you know.  If I keep up with everything I am interested in, I do
> not apply any of the knowledge, or said another way, I get nothing done.

I understand this problem completely. :)

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Best Regards,

Steve
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