Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.6.2.17 $; site ccvaxa.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!ccvaxa!wombat From: wombat@ccvaxa.UUCP Newsgroups: net.news.group Subject: Re: Re: New newgroup suggestion--Re: Per Message-ID: <25500003@ccvaxa.UUCP> Date: Thu, 27-Dec-84 22:09:00 EST Article-I.D.: ccvaxa.25500003 Posted: Thu Dec 27 22:09:00 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 30-Dec-84 00:49:43 EST References: <6662@brl-tgr.UUCP> Lines: 17 Nf-ID: #R:brl-tgr:-666200:ccvaxa:25500003:000:942 Nf-From: ccvaxa!wombat Dec 27 21:09:00 1984 The notes software provides for a "policy note" for every notefile (newsgroup). On the PLATO notesfile system, the policy note is used to explain what the notefile's intended use is, as well as any other information the notefile's directors (a notefile director is something like a Usenet moderator) think should be made generally available to readers. (For instance, the PLATO scifi policy note lists all the Darkover and Amber books in their correct orders, among other things.) I suspect that policy notes are rarely used by most sites, especially for networked files. I would guess that policy notes are currently not networked, but it probably wouldn't be hard to make that a director option. For the time being, anyway, interested sites running notes can create (and swap) their own policy notes and make sure their users read same. Wombat "I am not, nor have I ever been, Jan Howard Finder" ihnp4!uiucdcs!ccvaxa!wombat