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Re: Why the criticism of Roy's [News] articles?

  • Subject: Re: Why the criticism of Roy's [News] articles?
  • From: JPB <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 00:47:01 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
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Roy Culley wrote:

> Roy Schestowitz's [News] posts have really rattled the COLA wintrolls.
> The personal attacks against him have proved that.
> 
> One argument used by some of the trolls is that so few of his posts
> generate followups and hence nobody appreciates his articles to COLA.
> 

<snip>

> Roy is providing a news service for those of us too lazy / have too
> little time to subscribe to the multitude of resources available. Keep
> up the good work Roy, it is most appreciated by me.
> 

It's pretty good stuff to see meaningful traffic such as Roy generates
coming into the group, and I often pick up on things I'd otherwise miss as
a result.

Many [News] posts don't generate followups, but it's obvious in a newsreader
which ones do, and we've seen some great discussions build off one of the
[News] posts - even if the previous 9 or 99 had no follow-up.

Usenet is an open place, and people post what they will; deal with it. In
the meantime, keep up the good work Roy, and what a delight it is to see
all these great news stories swamping the win-trolls.

-- 
JPB

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