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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: DFTSUB/ADMSUB follies and a TMNN status report
Message-ID: <4982@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 13 Jul 89 14:11:25 GMT
References: <12610@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
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In article <12610@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>, testuser@athena.mit.edu (A Test User) writes:
> Question for the assembled: does anyone called about DFTSUB and ADMSUB
> any more?

(raises hand)

Yes, you can get around ADMSUB and DFLTSUB. We use both of these flags at
Ferranti and at Sugarland.

At Ferranti, we have a set of local newsgroups that everyone subscribes to
by default. People have to take an explicit action to see either the Usenet
groups or certain administrative groups that we have that are of minimal
interest to anyone outside the Developer or Xenix support groups.

At Sugarland, we use the Netnews software as the message base for a BBS.
People don't have access to text editors or arbitrary files. Again, in this
environment DFTSUB and ADMSUB are important.

> Our inclination is to remove these two bits
> of cruft, unless someone wants to make compelling arguments that they
> should stay.

Please don't.
-- 
Peter da Silva, Xenix Support, Ferranti International Controls Corporation.
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