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From: xsimon@its63b.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Wish list
Message-ID: <435@its63b.ed.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 26-May-87 08:52:22 EDT
Article-I.D.: its63b.435
Posted: Tue May 26 08:52:22 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 29-May-87 00:37:52 EDT
References: <969@bobkat.UUCP> <419@dasys1.UUCP>
Reply-To: xsimon@its63b.ed.ac.uk (Simon Brown)
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Organization: Computer Science Department, Edinburgh University
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Keywords: KILL K k

In article <969@bobkat.UUCP> pedz@bobkat.UUCP (Pedz Thing) writes:
>On a different subject and not related to sources is my wish for
>everyone who responds to an article to post it as a response, do not
>change the title, and keep all of the appropriate info in the header
>to make it look like a response.  Frequently I have to resort to the
>kill file technique just to get around something that the k key could
>and should solve if everyone cooperated.

A really nice feature for kill-files would be a "timeout" for each killed
item in the kill file. Once a certain amount of time has elapsed without
an offending article appearing, its entry in the kill file should be
silently removed - this would prevent the ridiculous situation whereby
entering a newsgroup causes a massive search for articles to kill on
subjects which are no longer "fashionable". (This also allows one to
temporarily kill a subject for a while when you get bored with it, knowing
that it'll come back later when you might be more interested).

*=Simon
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