Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ut-sally.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!ut-sally!riddle From: riddle@ut-sally.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle) Newsgroups: net.news Subject: Re: It's time for news to get user-UNfriendly Message-ID: <1291@ut-sally.UUCP> Date: Mon, 11-Mar-85 11:36:56 EST Article-I.D.: ut-sally.1291 Posted: Mon Mar 11 11:36:56 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 12-Mar-85 21:22:42 EST References: <245@looking.UUCP> Organization: U. of Tx. at Houston-in-the-Hills Lines: 13 My chief complaint about some of Brad Templeton's suggestions -- elimination of "Re:" subjects on followups, replacement of newsgroups with an intentionally hard-to-use system of keywords, etc. -- is that they don't really make Usenet harder to use, they just make Usenet harder to use WELL. In my opinion steps like these would result in more articles, not fewer, being posted with inappropriate titles or in inappropriate places -- the inconsiderate slobs will continue to do as they damned well please, and well-meaning but naive users will be even more baffled by Usenet than they are now. This is no solution to anything. --- Prentiss Riddle ("Aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada.") --- {ihnp4,harvard,seismo,gatech,ctvax}!ut-sally!riddle --- riddle@ut-sally.UUCP, riddle@ut-sally.ARPA, riddle%zotz@ut-sally