wm@tekchips.UUCP (Wm Leler) (10/26/83)
Now that the distribution of an article can be specified independently of the news group, how about being able to specify a distribution of "ug". This corresponds to the old group prefix of "ug" in the same way that the current distributions like "net" correspond to current group prefixes. This distribution would mean that this article would only be distributed to people of questionable taste. Actually, if this is implemented, I vote for calling this distribution "rot", both because of the assumed content of the submission, and because all such articles should be automatically rotated by Bnews. Benefits would be: - It would make it easy to rotate submissions, so new news users would not have to figure this out for themselves. I presume this would lower the incidence of tasteless articles submitted without rotation. - People who never want to see questionable articles would never even see the header. - It provides the complement of the "Caesar decoding" facility currently in Bnews. After all, if it is easy now to decode jokes, it should be easy to encode them. Long live net.jokes! Wm Leler wm.Tektronix@Rand-relay