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Subject: Re: USENET decisions
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Date: Wed, 29-Apr-87 06:35:58 EDT
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In article <1179@m-net.UUCP> michael@node.UUCP (Michael McClary) writes:
>Indeed, cutting traffic is a laudible goal.  But wouldn't having the mailer
>ask you if you really wanted to send all that junk, rather than dripping
>your post in the bit bucket with no opportunity to recover it (as some
>news posters do), be better bahavior?

I am surprised that your mailer is doing that...  If I remember corectly,
2.11 news creates a file $HOME/.article, which it then puts in an
editor for you.  If the posting fails, then you have that file...

(Of course, if you did include more lines than added text, then
it would be easy to rewrite it, as you must therefore have not
written much, eh? :-)

Also, if the posting fails, I believe a file dead.article is created,
although that may only apply to bad newsgroups...

>User-hostile programs produce hostile users.

I agree... But how much user hostility of a program is just not being
familiar with the system?
-- 
James C. Armstrong, Jnr.	(nicmad,ulysses,ihnp4)!terminus!nyssa

"Oh! I'm getting dizzy!"	Who said it, what story?