Xref: utzoo news.software.b:7914 news.admin:14598 Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.admin Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!linac!mp.cs.niu.edu!rickert From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) Subject: Re: Really funny jokes being missed Message-ID: <1991May24.033600.19567@mp.cs.niu.edu> Organization: Northern Illinois University References: <1991May19.022322.29056@zoo.toronto.edu> <9105202307.10@rmkhome.UUCP> <1991May24.014500.12255@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: Fri, 24 May 1991 03:36:00 GMT Lines: 26 In article <1991May24.014500.12255@agate.berkeley.edu> jbuck@forney.berkeley.edu (Joe Buck) writes: >In article <9105202307.10@rmkhome.UUCP>, rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) writes: >|> How about a news directory called /trashed? The admin could easily go through > >Rick, you're reinventing the wheel. There's already a news directory called >/usr/spool/news/junk that serves the purpose. Why not use what's already >there? This misses the point. It really doesn't matter whether you put these articles in junk, or in trashed, or in the appropriate directory for the news group. What matters is that they never be forwarded to any additional sites. The one benefit of a separate directory (trashed) would be that you could put the articles their, but not enter them in the history file. That way if a valid copy arrived later you would still see it. You would probably need to have 'newsdaily' discard all old trashed articles. You might even want 'spacefor' to do so when space gets tight. ersonally, I am not convinced this is a good idea - I see several problems. But it is not the same as junk. -- =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science Northern Illinois Univ. DeKalb, IL 60115 +1-815-753-6940