Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site lsuc.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcs!lsuc!dave From: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman) Newsgroups: net.news Subject: Re: It's time for news to get user-UNfriendly Message-ID: <497@lsuc.UUCP> Date: Mon, 11-Mar-85 12:35:04 EST Article-I.D.: lsuc.497 Posted: Mon Mar 11 12:35:04 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 11-Mar-85 13:43:09 EST References: <245@looking.UUCP> <2451@nsc.UUCP> Reply-To: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman) Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto Lines: 17 Summary: fix postnews to require confirmation before posting There's one very simple fix to postnews which would make a large difference. That is to require confirmation from the user before posting the article. rn's Pnews already does this. With postnews, even an experienced netnews participant can accidentally hit the 'q' key and find his article posted. At the time confirmation is requested, the article should probably be redisplayed to the user, too. If he finds it a pain rereading the whole thing, maybe he'll get the point. SYSTEM ADMINISTRATORS: if you have rn running, why not disable postnews? Or better yet, put it somewhere hidden (/usr/lib/news/postnews), so experienced users can find it but new users will go through Pnews. Dave Sherman -- {utzoo pesnta nrcaero utcs hcr}!lsuc!dave {allegra decvax ihnp4 linus}!utcsri!lsuc!dave