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From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP ( Zonker T. Chuqui )
Newsgroups: mod.singles
Subject: improved and standardized format for mod.singles
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Date: Mon, 22-Oct-84 06:37:56 EDT
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- - - mod.singles- - -          - - - Volume 1, Issue 10 - - -


After a serious weekend of hacking I've come up with enough software to run
mod.singles with some sort of stability. This software implements a fairly
standard and stable format (based very much on the feedback I've gotten
from out there) in a way that minimizes the amount of handholding I need to
do. New features:

	(1) the posters name is back in the header so you can now see who
	posted something without reading the article.

	(2) the subject of the article is in the header as well.

	(3) the reply command should be working again-- you should be able
	to send a mail reply to a poster in mod.singles the same way as you
	did for net.singles.

	(4) chuqui-isms have been removed-- things like my signature (nice
	as it is, not appropriate for mod.singles) and other covert or
	overt hints of the moderator have been removed wherever possible.

What I've tried to do is make the moderation as invisible as possible. the
header you see in readnews or vnews should be almost exactly the same for
mod.singles and net.singles now. replies now should work the same. Users
running 2.10.2 or greater should be able to followup to either net.singles
or mod.singles invisibly to them (if not, yell at your administrator to 
fix it or upgrade). 

The software is still primitive, but it is better than what I had before
(which was nothing). Please drop me comments at 'nsc!singles-request' on
further suggestions and improvments you would like to see and I'll try
to act on them.

chuq


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