Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ginosko!uunet!intercon!amanda@intercon.com From: amanda@intercon.com (Amanda Walker) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: moderation of alt.sources vs. automated harangues Message-ID: <1502@intercon.com> Date: 18 Oct 89 21:36:40 GMT References: <4375@sugar.hackercorp.com> <922@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <47033@bbn.COM> <1989Oct18.161558.3181@talos.uucp> <14766@bfmny0.UU.NET> <14767@bfmny0.UU.NET> Sender: news@intercon.com Reply-To: amanda@intercon.com (Amanda Walker) Organization: InterCon Systems Corporation Lines: 20 In article <14767@bfmny0.UU.NET>, tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff) writes: > Another thing we could do to cut down chatter in source groups is modify > the common newsreaders to automatically redirect followups to the associated > discussion group. The algorithm would be: > > if following up to a non-null article, then > if the newsgroup contains ".sources" but does not end in ".d", then > if newsgroup.d exists, then > change the Newsgroups: header line to newsgroup.d > A simpler way would be to just have a little file somewhere that had a list of pairs of newsgroups. If you're in one that matches the first in a pair, use the second one of the pair as a default "Followup-To:". Simple, general. -- Amanda Walker "Tobacco is the only drug in America that will kill you if it's taken as directed." --Dr. C. Everett Koop, former U.S. Surgeon General