grr@cbmvax.UUCP (02/04/87)
We are currently having a problem in the comp.sys.{amiga,atari,mac,...}
groups that is being amplified by a feature of the current news software.
To be specific, when an a follow-up article is created it automatically
includes all the cross-posted groups of the original in the followup,
and if the poster does not realize this the followup will be silently
cross posted to all of these groups.
Right now, we are going into the third wind of a 'my computer is better
than you computer' war, occasioned when some misguided soul cross-posted
a request for opinions to 5 or 6 groups. The resulting n-th generation
flames are still being cross-posted to all these groups in many cases,
tempers are growing short, and noise volume is going through the roof.
This would have all died down weeks ago if the software would just
ask 'ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO POST YOUR MESSAGE TO ALL THESE GROUPS?'
Note that I have no objection to cross-posting, it's just that I feel
that the default behavior of the posting software is counter-productive
when a cross-posting to n groups generates kn! followups...
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