[net.news.adm] Preserve the usefulness of "net.flame" as a keyword

jbuck@epicen.UUCP (Joe Buck) (11/14/85)

For those sites that don't pass net.flame, may I suggest that you do
it by putting !net.flame in your sys file, but leave net.flame as a
valid newsgroup in your active. Then the "net.flame" keyword stays
attached to the message, so when it gets to my system and I use rn,
I can say
	/net.flame/hj
in flame-prone groups such as net.news.group (or make a global kill
file). If you don't do this, I expect the crosspostings to continue,
but I might read the stuff if there's nothing in the header stating that
it's a flame. I don't allow net.flame on our system, but I don't want
to read net.flame crosspostings either.

Another approach would be to reject an article entirely if ANY group
is net.flame, but that requires software modification.
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