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From: wcs@ho95e.UUCP (Bill.Stewart.4K435.x0705)
Newsgroups: net.news,net.news.adm,net.news.sa
Subject: Re: Re: An idea on how to shape things up
Message-ID: <192@ho95e.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 24-Sep-85 15:12:59 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 24 15:12:59 1985
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Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ
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> One thing that I have done at my site is to make the default
> distribution 'local'.  That way a user has to at least figure
> out how to use postnews before he/she can bother the entire
> net.  I also changed postnews so that if the user specifies
> a distribution of 'net' they are then asked if they 'really
> want the ENTIRE world to see the article'.  These changes were easy
>....
> 	Dave Brierley Raytheon Co.; Portsmouth RI; (401)-847-8000 x4073
>   ...!decvax!brunix!rayssd!dhb ...!allegra!rayssd!dhb ...!linus!rayssd!dhb

The version of postnews that came with my 2.10.2 systems already
did this.  If you post to *.wanted, it will ask you if this is an
article you'd post in your local newspaper (maybe just the new jersey
version does this :-) ? ), and for other groups does some reasonable
pruning on the distributions.  

THE DEFAULT ORDERING OF NEWSGROUPS STARTS OUT WITH NET.ANNOUNCE and
NET.ANNOUNCE.NEWUSERS.  THIS MEANS NEW PEOPLE ALWAYS! GET THEM FIRST.

EVEN IF YOU HAVE 2.10.1 (or earlier?) YOU CAN CHANGE THIS FOR YOUR
SYSTEM, SO NEW USERS GET THOSE GROUPS FIRST.

It also has the nice
feature of allowing users to order their .newsrc files in the order
they'd like to read the news.  This means that I don't have to read
the news in the same order everyone else on my system does.
-- 
## Bill Stewart, AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ 1-201-949-0705 ihnp4!ho95c!wcs


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