[news.admin] Could we get back to the subject?

rkh@mtune.ATT.COM (Robert Halloran) (08/01/88)

Could all the people in this Mark Ethan Smith firefight please
move their arguments to E-mail, and let this group get back to
the topic of administering news, please?

						Bob Halloran
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amos@taux02.UUCP (Amos Shapir) (08/02/88)

Maybe there's a purpose in having all this junk in news.admin: to demonstrate
to all news admins especially those who write the next generation of news
utilities, that blind crossposting should be prohibited. A follow-up
feature should ask the poster explicitly whether to include each of the
newsgroups in the header, possibly with their description; something like:

news.admin: Comments directed to news administrators. Do you want to post there?

Currently, postnews does something like that, but most news readers don't.

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