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From: fair@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU (Erik E. Fair)
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Subject: Re: Suggestion for automatic Followup-To:
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Date: Mon, 13-Apr-87 05:24:58 EST
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To be honest, I don't have a specific example of a discussion in mind
when I object to your proposal, Karl. I simply believe that in the
universe of USENET discussions (or debates) there are some that should
be cross-posted to more than one group, and that we should not take
away the capability to do so. In other words, it's a feature, not a bug.

Counter-Proposal: stick your idea in postnews, rather than inews, so
that those of us who know what we're doing can trivially circumvent it,
by deleting headers while in the editor, or whatever.

The basic problem you're trying to attack (people too ignorant to pick
appropriate newsgroup(s) for their postings) is a tough nut to crack.
You should keep at it. I just don't think that removing functionality
is the right way to solve what appears to me to be, fundamentally, an
education problem.

	Erik E. Fair	ucbvax!fair	fair@ucbarpa.berkeley.edu

P.S.	I've spent almost two years using a conferencing system that,
	until recently, did not have any type of "cross-posting"
	facility, despite the fact it is running on a UNIX system. It
	was very painful to do without.