Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ptsfa.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!umcp-cs!gymble!lll-crg!dual!ptsfa!dsp From: dsp@ptsfa.UUCP (David St. Pierre) Newsgroups: net.news Subject: Re: Suggestion: article number 0 Message-ID: <710@ptsfa.UUCP> Date: Wed, 26-Jun-85 21:57:03 EDT Article-I.D.: ptsfa.710 Posted: Wed Jun 26 21:57:03 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 29-Jun-85 04:12:37 EDT References: <905@sdcsla.UUCP> <2898@nsc.UUCP> Reply-To: dsp@ptsfa.UUCP (David St. Pierre-150) Organization: Pacific Bell, San Francisco Lines: 22 Rather than use article 0, is there any simple way of using a file similar to "distributions"? That is, a file of newsgroups for which a "charter" is available? The charter would be displayed the first time one subscribes to a newsgroup, maybe when one re-subscribes to it, or when someone wants "help". I thought this would provide the advantage of not getting involved with expire. A replacement strategy might be developed by routing new charters to some specialized newsgroup with (I'm probably way off base) a cmsg. Nobody's really decided how OFTEN these charters would change, so even something as boring as posting a regular news article for digestion by the news SA wouldn't be too difficult. It would also make packaging in new releases of netnews pretty easy and not disturb old versions. A last possible advantage is that this would be fairly easy to create different versions of charters, or ignore them altogether if some SA didn't feel they were appropriate. I'm wondering who is going to write the definitive charter for net.misc. -- David St. Pierre {ihnp4,dual}!ptsfa!dsp