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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
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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.

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Duncan
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