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From: blarson@skat.usc.edu (Bob Larson)
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Subject: Re: Postive vs Negative Features (was: Re: Novel new idea to stop...)
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Date: 2 Dec 87 19:11:29 GMT
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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.
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