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From: bote@csense.uucp (John Boteler)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b
Subject: Re: Followup Containment (Was Re: followups to "*** ... *** )
Message-ID: <1990Jul12.201422.883@csense.uucp>
Date: 12 Jul 90 20:14:22 GMT
References: <37429@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Followup-To: news.software.b
Organization: Common Sense Computing, McLean, VA.
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From article <37429@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>, by gwh@monsoon.Berkeley.EDU (George William Herbert):
> 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
> 	
> Get the following warning message along with the current "Sure you want to
> do this?" :

Forget the message. Force the followup into one and only one newsgroup,
as appropriate.

As I remember from the deep, dark bnews days, that was the default
action.

If the newsreader gurus don't want to implement this, should be simple 
to implement in Cnews' 'inews' script: take the article in the background, 
chew off the extra newsgroups, and spit it out to the world concerned
with the topic. If it never gets there, the poster will be forced to
think next time.

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