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From: karl@tut.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Novel new idea to stop followups
Message-ID: <2476@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Mon, 30-Nov-87 21:50:12 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 30 21:50:12 1987
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In-reply-to: brad@looking.UUCP's message of 29 Nov 87 06:34:04 GMT

brad@looking.UUCP writes:
   People in the past have suggested that followups shouldn't be done
   until after all the news in a group is read.  Here's a further suggestion.
   Change inews so that it rejects any local poster who is:
	   a) in rn, readnews, vnews or any other news reading program
	   b) accessed his .newsrc file within say, the last half hour.

It misses too many obvious workarounds, several of which exist right
now.  Case in point, I'm reading/posting from inside GNU Emacs.  My
normal *modus operandi* is to create an Emacs which lives all day on
my Sun; there is no way to detect that I'm using this "news-reading
program," because it's as likely to be editing /usr/lib/aliases one
minute as following up to an article the next.  And it's quite
possible that my .newsrc won't get updated for fairly long periods
when I'm catching up on a (long) weekend's worth of news on Monday.

Worse, from my point of view, is that my work requires me to post to
local newsgroups fairly often.  Even if you provide "deliberate
bypasses," it'll cause me more trouble than it's worth.

It's not a bad idea, but it needs some work before it's usable.  I get
enough flack from people for the more-new-than-quoted-text rule in
2.11 inews.  I don't need another headache.
-- 
Karl