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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
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Posted: Mon Mar 11 12:35:04 1985
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Reply-To: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman)
Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
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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
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