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From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions,news.software.b
Subject: Re: addgroup won't alert users of new group
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Date: 11 Nov 90 00:38:39 GMT
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A nice idea, I think, would be for inews/relaynews to crosspost all
newgroup control messages to a group called "newgroups", local to each
machine.   (Or to avoid problems with people posting here, newgroups.site)

Then, as long as group creators take the time to put some valid text in
the newgroup message describing the group, etc., then users need merely
read (or not read) this group.

No convoluted code in the reader to figure out what groups are new, etc.

I hate blank newgroup messages anyway.  I would much rather that those who
create groups at least put in stuff like, "per the vote nnn to yyy" or
something useful.
-- 
Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473