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From: julian@deepthot.UUCP (Julian Davies)
Newsgroups: net.news.group,net.news
Subject: About multiple groups for a posting
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Date: Tue, 24-Jul-84 16:48:31 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 24 16:48:31 1984
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It crossed my mind that the semantics of mentioning multiple groups
could be changed -- i.e., a person only sees a posting if he/she
subscribes to ALL the newsgroups mentioned.  Then i (for instance)
would automatically not see any postings to net.singles which also
mentioned net.religion.   However, other remarks indicate that
some people LIKE the way it is.
  A global change of semantics from union to intersection would
certainly discourage people from mentioning irrelevant newsgroups
while posting, ... but maybe this could be a user-selected option
in the readnews program, next time it is worked over.
Julian Davies