Xref: utzoo news.misc:1007 news.admin:1340 news.software.b:969 Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!oberon!skat.usc.edu!blarson From: blarson@skat.usc.edu (Bob Larson) Newsgroups: news.misc,news.admin,news.software.b Subject: Re: Postive vs Negative Features (was: Re: Novel new idea to stop...) Message-ID: <5499@oberon.USC.EDU> Date: 2 Dec 87 19:11:29 GMT References: <1173@looking.UUCP> <1178@looking.UUCP> <635@brandx.rutgers.edu> Sender: news@oberon.USC.EDU Reply-To: blarson@skat.usc.edu (Bob Larson) Followup-To: news.misc Organization: USC AIS, Los Angeles Lines: 28 In article <635@brandx.rutgers.edu> webber@brandx.rutgers.edu (Webber) writes: [Some sugestions I agree with. He has several good ideas that I edited out because I didn't have anything to add.] >Instead of putting in such a negative feature, it would be better to >work toward making it easier to for people to postpone their >followups. >Doubtless some news reader already has this feature, but >unless a feature is put in most of the news readers, it will tend to >miss alot of people. The biggest thing preventing delayed followups >is the annoyance of tracking down the messages you want to follow up >to. I use the M feature of rn for this. Cross-posted articles are the main problem with this tecnique. >Or a feature that lets you stop in mid-reply and continue the reply >later I do this by writing the reply I am editing to a file and abort, then later using Pnews including the saved reply and edit out the extra set of headers. -- Bob Larson Arpa: Blarson@Ecla.Usc.Edu Uucp: {sdcrdcf,cit-vax}!oberon!skat!blarson blarson@skat.usc.edu Prime mailing list (requests): info-prime-request%fns1@ecla.usc.edu