Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84 chuqui version 1.7 9/23/84; site nsc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!nsc!chuqui From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP ( Zonker T. Chuqui ) Newsgroups: mod.singles Subject: improved and standardized format for mod.singles Message-ID: <1688@nsc.UUCP> Date: Mon, 22-Oct-84 06:37:56 EDT Article-I.D.: nsc.1688 Posted: Mon Oct 22 06:37:56 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 23-Oct-84 01:20:29 EDT Sender: chuqui@nsc.UUCP Organization: The Warlocks Cave Lines: 41 Approved: chuqui@nsc.UUCP - - - 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 -- Mod.singles postings should be mailed to 'nsc!singles' administrivia should be mailed to 'nsc!singles-request' nsc talks to {cbosgd,decwrl,fortune,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo}