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From: gwh@monsoon.Berkeley.EDU (George William Herbert)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b
Subject: Followup Containment (Was Re: followups to "*** ... *** )
Summary: suggested feature for next generation news software.
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Date: 6 Jul 90 07:12:15 GMT
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Reply-To: gwh@OCF.Berkeley.EDU (George William Herbert)
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I would like to suggest that whoever writes the next generation of news
software, and anyone doing a new news reader, make an itsy bitsy little
addition:

Anyone posting a followup that will either
	Appear in more than one newsgroup, or
	Be redirected to another newsgroup, or both
	
Get the following warning message along with the current "Sure you want to
do this?" :

	This followup is being sent to newsgroups: {list}
	Please do not followup to inappropriate newsgroups.
	Followup in newsgroup: {xyz} ? [yn]:    

and repeat that line for each newsgroup that the followup is to, deleting
from the list any group that you don't respond with 'y'.

I'm not familliar enough with the current news software to suggest where 
patches to do this ought to go, bu it might be a good project for someone.

-george

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