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From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b
Subject: Re: Novel new idea to stop followups
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Date: Mon, 30-Nov-87 12:53:19 EST
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Several people, including Bob Webber, have sent me descriptions of ways
one might get around a "pause and reflect" posting restriction.

I think people are missing the point here.  Of *course* there are lots of
ways around any scheme.  Hell, anybody can uux rnews if they want!

People who want to abuse the net with technical tricks will always be
able to do so.

The point is, to reduce netnoise, you don't have to hit everybody.  Just
the average poster.  If some people want to write special programs to
sneak around things, let them do it.

I have also gotten, as expected, people who have said, "I might forget to
post something important."  I still stand by my conviction that this is
a contradiction in terms.  But if people still feel this way, I suppose
we could put in a "followup" command which simply recorded, in a file, the
article-ids and author's names of the articles you wished to follow up.
Then, an hour later, you could execute a command that read this file and
let you prepare followups.

And yes, you could get around all this with sleep commands, possibly touch
commands, etc.  Isn't that *special*?  Don't we feel just a bit *superior*?
-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. - Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473