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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
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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.
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David St. Pierre		{ihnp4,dual}!ptsfa!dsp