News Proxy may be why many people may have missed the vote

I just realized something:

The RPD reorganization charter posted at http://tinyurl.com/4s2np was
addressed to news.announce.newsgroups, news.groups,
alt.comp.periphs.dcameras, rec.photo.digital, rec.photo.equipment.35mm

Any voting posts that were cross-posted to several groups, like this charter
was, are automatically filtered out by my News Proxy. I don't ever get to
see them.

If your News Proxy is set up like mine is, then you missed the posts, too.

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democracy my arse

 

If this is not the case, then disregard my previous message.

I'll blame my missing the voting posts on my preoccupation with the 3
hurricanes that hit my house this summer . . . no electricity for 17 days
total . . . sawing off tree limbs to get my car out of my driveway, dealing
with property damage, insurance companies . . . enough to keep a poor girl
busy for weeks.

I just think that expanding the ng to that many new groups is not good. For
example: Will an experienced ZLR poster ever see the post from a P&S newbie
about CF cards? Will a ZLR poster with question about batteries posting in
the P&S ng, and mentioning his camera brand, be told to go to his own ng for
answers? Will good posts be cross-posted and get filtered out by News Proxy?
etc, etc

Sorry to sound like I'm bitching but I think this whole idea has gotten out
of hand. One expansion group for SLR would have been fine, IMO.

 

RPD is not going away. Don't be so dramatic about the whole thing. Life
will go on as it did before!

 

LOL

I thought you knew there's no stopping me once I got my pantyhose in a knot

: )

 

Ah. That explains why I didn't see them either.

Based on previous experience, it's a rare event that something
cross-posted to more than four groups is worth reading.

 

I don't use News Proxy, and I read news with trn. But my trn killfile
for this group is set up to discard all crossposted articles. This is
probably somewhat common, since it's a good way to eliminate many troll
postings and the threads they start. Anyway, I didn't see the RFD/vote
stuff either.

Dave