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From: sverre@fesk.UUCP (Sverre Froyen)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b
Subject: Re: Novel new idea to stop followups
Message-ID: <163@fesk.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 5-Dec-87 13:16:54 EST
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Posted: Sat Dec  5 13:16:54 1987
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in article <2063@isis.UUCP>, aburt@isis.UUCP (Andrew Burt) says:
> First let's get straight what problem it is we're trying to solve.  I see
> two offhand: (1) Person replies only to find a later msg in the group says
> the same thing (i.e., the effort was wasted); (2) person replies and is
> very hotheaded, delaying will cause them to cool down.

Another hothead follows up :-)

One possible solution to this would be to have the *posting* of
the follow-up delayed until the user quits the news session. By then
s/he will have seen any other articles on the subject and will also have
had a chance the "cool down". Even better, let the `f' key just mark the
article to be followed up and delay *writing* the follow-up until
the news session is over. At this point list the selected articles,
ask the user to reselect, and then allow the follow-up. By now the
user may have decided that it is not worth the time to write the follow-up.
This may reduce superfluous and hotheaded postings.

Perhaps this should be extended to mail follow-ups too.

If this has been suggested previously -- disregard this posting.
-- 
Sverre Froyen
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