Aucf-cs.417
net.news
utzoo!decvax!duke!ucf-cs!whm
Tue Feb 16 22:44:56 1982
Following up
It seems to me that one reason for so many redundant followups to an
article is that people read an article, followup on it and then a couple
of articles later, they see the same thing that they just sent in.  It
would be nice to have an option to "hold" certain news articles for
action until the end of the session, and then if no further notes on
the particular topic, followup at that time.

B News might help this problem because all the articles for a group
come out contiguously, but the crux of the matter seems to be that
people don't know what somebody else has said until it's too late.
(Of course, some of the problem is simply a property of a store and
forward network.  Even as I type, I may creating a redundancy.)

About the net.general.followup--that's no good (at least in A News)
because then net.general subscribers would get net.general.followup
unless they !'d it.

I think that much of the problem with replies that are on net.general
that would best be in net.misc would be solved if [more] people would
direct that followups on their article be sent to net.misc.

Does anybody know when B News is to be released?

				Bill Mitchell
				University of Central Florida