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From: wombat@ccvaxa.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Re: New newgroup suggestion--Re: Per
Message-ID: <25500003@ccvaxa.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 27-Dec-84 22:09:00 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 27 22:09:00 1984
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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"
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