Newsgroups: news.software.b Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!tale From: tale@rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) Subject: Re: sys file entries for CNEWS Message-ID: Nntp-Posting-Host: cs.rpi.edu Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Computer Science, Troy NY References: <449@skyking.UUCP> <1991Mar23.193554.25944@looking.on.ca> <27EF7E26.40AD@tct.uucp> Date: 27 Mar 91 05:14:11 GMT Lines: 26 From: chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) Date: 26 Mar 91 17:00:22 GMT So what's next, automatic correction of misspelled newsgroups? In obvious cases, sure. I wish my inews rewrote =groups. I live with it just rejecting the article, forcing the user to correct it. Either is acceptable enough for me. Why do you insinuate that automatically correcting something like a misspelling is such an unspeakable evil? (And no, I'm not talking about doing it to incoming news --- just articles being newly posted.) If the poster can't be bothered to learn the correct distribution keywords, then he deserves whatever limited propagation he gets. I disagree strenuously. Until I take the time to hack parsing and rejection of bogus Distribution:s into inews then I will liberally err on the favourable side of communication rather than silently fail to inform him of problems. On the other hand, "/all" is useful in some contexts: ME:all/all Wrong. The distribution subfield is not relevant in ME. -- (setq mail '("tale@rpi.edu" "uupsi!rpi!tale" "tale@rpitsmts.bitnet"))