Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!sco!davidbe From: davidbe@sco.COM (The Cat in the Hat) Newsgroups: news.misc Subject: Re: Wish List re: Crossposting Message-ID: <554@viscous> Date: 11 May 88 20:11:16 GMT References: <3938@gryphon.CTS.COM> Reply-To: davidbe@sco.COM (The Cat in the Hat) Organization: The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. (Scovert Operations) Lines: 36 Remember way back when in article <3938@gryphon.CTS.COM> when mhnadel@gryphon.CTS.COM (Miriam Nadel) said... -We periodically see suggestions about how to cut down on cross-posting and -the most workable thing I've noticed so far is the suggestion that the -news software should require you to confirm that you really want to crosspost -the article in question to all the groups mentioned. That may cut down on -careless crossposting (which very likely is the major problem) but I'd like -to suggest that there should be some filters which would outright prevent -crossposting between certain groups. For example, - [ some stuff removed ] -talk.bizarre and rec.arts.startrek - for obvious reasons - Actually, generally anything cross-posted between talk.bizarre and any other newsgroup, is cross-posted to at least one wrong newsgroup. And generally, talk.bizarre and rec.humor mix the worst. Talk.bizarre and alt.flame is the only combination that ever (sometimes) makes sense. -Miriam Nadel --- -"There was a man who, upon finding nothing to complain about in his coal, -complained that it contained too many prehistoric toads." -Mark Twain -ihnp4!scgvaxd!cadovax!gryphon!mhnadel rutgers!marque!gryphon!mhnadel - codas!ddsw1!gryphon!mhnadel "Here at talk.bizarre, we believe the letter V should stand for quality...not Volume." -- DavidBedno(akaTheCatintheHat,Dr.Seuss,Dr.Dave,Bamf)Nowappearingat: davidbe@sco.COM-OR-...!{uunet,ihnp4,decvax!microsoft,ucbvax!ucscc} !sco!davidbe-OR-610PacificAve#5,Santa Cruz,California95060Home: 408-425-5266Work:408-425-7222x697(I'mprobablyhere...)/*NotSCO'sopinions*/