Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!decwrl!hplabs!sdcrdcf!trwrb!cadovax!gryphon!mhnadel From: mhnadel@gryphon.CTS.COM (Miriam Nadel) Newsgroups: news.misc Subject: Wish List re: Crossposting Message-ID: <3938@gryphon.CTS.COM> Date: 10 May 88 16:46:26 GMT Reply-To: mhnadel@gryphon.CTS.COM (Miriam Nadel) Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA Lines: 41 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, xxx.anything and xxx.misc - the .misc groups are supposed to exist to handle things that don't belong anywhere else. There may be appropriate occassions for crossposting between xxx.something and yyy.misc, however. misc.misc and anything else - by definition of misc.misc talk.politics.mideast and soc.culture.jewish or soc.culture.arabic - since t.p.m was created to get these discussions out of the soc groups misc.headlines and talk.politics.misc - keep a given discussion in one. This is a problem largely because few people have any idea of what misc.headlines is for. alt groups and anything else - particularly alt.sex since it was created as an alt group to appease management types and everyone in soc.singles is sick and tired of the "music to fuck to" question anyway talk.bizarre and rec.arts.startrek - for obvious reasons I'm sure any regular newsreader can come up with several more examples. There are getting to be so many groups that I'm sure new readers (and some old ones!) are just confused, but having given up hope of people learning better, it would be nice to impose my will on them :-) 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