Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 UW 5/3/83; site uw-june Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!hogpc!houti!ariel!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!uw-june!gordon From: gordon@uw-june.UUCP Newsgroups: net.followup,net.news.group Subject: Re: Submitted for your approval: net.forsale Message-ID: <1843@uw-june> Date: Mon, 8-Oct-84 03:47:44 EDT Article-I.D.: uw-june.1843 Posted: Mon Oct 8 03:47:44 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 9-Oct-84 03:01:14 EDT References: <550@sunybcs.UUCP> <5988@mcvax.UUCP> <10309@gatech.UUCP> Organization: U of Washington Computer Science Lines: 29 I'd rather we kept the newsgroup and distribution orthogonal, that is, create net.forsale and rely on posters stopping the distribution down and thereby keeping the net from being flooded with articles advertising used ping pong paddles. Am I really that naive? Of course not. I also suggest that postnews be munged to notice when something is being posted to net.forsale and, if the user doesn't specify a distribution, issue a warning and a list of local distributions, and give the user another chance. Something like this: Subject: '75 Nova for sale Newsgroups (general): net.forsale Distribution (net.forsale): Are you sure that this item is of worldwide interest? If not, please use one of the following restricted distributions: uwcsa, uw, seattle, usa, na Distribution (net.forsale): seattle As for how we're going to get people to install the new version of postnews, that's easy. Whenever we see a lot of innapropriate postings to net.forsale coming from one site, we flame the system administrator of the offending site. In this case, the problem sites are a lot easier to spot than with the line eater and other forwarding bugs. Hmm, a similar trick might help the net.general situation... -- Human: Gordon Davisson USnail: 5008 12th NE, Seattle, WA, 98105 UUCP: {ihnp4,decvax,tektronix}!uw-beaver!uw-june!gordon