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From: riddle@ut-sally.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: It's time for news to get user-UNfriendly
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Date: Mon, 11-Mar-85 11:36:56 EST
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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.")
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