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From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: net.news.b
Subject: Re: recordings in postnews, BSD version
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Date: Wed, 11-Apr-84 13:29:51 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr 11 13:29:51 1984
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The big problem with recordings in inews is that it doesn't work with
vnews and nicely garbages the h*ll out of the screen. Besides, since 99+%
of the original messages tend to go out through postnews, that is where I
want recordings. I see no sense in telling people while they are following
up to someone what the topic is about. It is the new messages that need the
reminders (this might now be as true for something like net.all reminding
people about proprietary information as some Bell sites do, but that isn't
a problem here). I made the following assumptions:
	-  I don't need recordings in readnews or vnews
	-  Everyone uses postnews to post new articles 
	-  That is where recordings are needed
	-  People smart enough to write their own replacements for postnews
	   are smart enough that they don't need constant reminders on how
	   to use the net.

Inews is a big enough hack as it is, and already does way to much for its
own good (this is why I am hacking bnproc into it as well, of course).
Anything I can do to clean it up a bit is well worth while.

chuq

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