Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!munnari!vuwcomp!duncan From: duncan@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Duncan McEwan) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b Subject: Re: Novel new idea to stop followups Message-ID: <13103@comp.vuw.ac.nz> Date: Wed, 2-Dec-87 15:50:51 EST Article-I.D.: comp.13103 Posted: Wed Dec 2 15:50:51 1987 Date-Received: Mon, 7-Dec-87 00:13:02 EST References: <1173@looking.UUCP> <635@brandx.rutgers.edu> Reply-To: duncan@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Duncan McEwan) Organization: Comp Sci, Victoria Univ, Wellington, New Zealand Lines: 24 Xref: mnetor news.admin:1484 news.software.b:1009 In article <1173@looking.UUCP> brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) writes: >I just had an interesting thought for future versions of news. >... An idea that was floated some months ago that might be effective in reducing the volume of followup's is to only have one `follow up' command. At the end of composing the followup, the news reader asks if the sender wants to mail the followup or post it - the idea being that after the sender has cooled down a bit they might decide something they were going to post would be better mailed. In article <635@brandx.rutgers.edu> webber@brandx.rutgers.edu (Webber) writes: >What would be better (and hence encourage more people to delay >followups) would be if you could save messages off into a followup >directory ... This sounds like a useful idea that would prevent a lot of the duplication that occurs when people followup before they see if anyone else has already made the same point. It would also give people more of a chance to cool down before following up. --- Duncan Domain: duncan@comp.vuw.ac.nz Path: ...!uunet!vuwcomp!duncan