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From: peter@baylor.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
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Subject: Re: Re: cleaning up the net -- software revisited
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Date: Mon, 12-Aug-85 17:19:21 EDT
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> In article <3023@nsc.UUCP> chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
> >Followup-fan-in: A better (and probably easier to implement) form of
> >    followup-fan-in has been suggested. Rather than mung out the header of
> >    followups, mung out the header of all articles with a non-null
> >    'followup-to' so that it will followup to the first newsgroup on the
> >    newsgroup list. 
> 
> This is a good idea.

This is a bad idea. What happens if I don't read net.foo, but followup
to a message posted on net.bar,net.foo? I won't see any responses to my
followup! I don't see any reason why followups can't just hang around the
groups they started with the way they do now.

> make the news softeare more of a mess than it already is.  I for one vote no.

2 votes.
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