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From: page@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu (Bob Page)
Newsgroups: news.groups,news.software.b
Subject: Re: Announcement of unmoderated sources mailing list.
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Date: Thu, 18-Jun-87 15:01:33 EDT
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Reply-To: page@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu (Bob Page)
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taylor@hplabs.HP.COM (Dave Taylor) wrote in news.groups:
>...the correct solution is to modify the software to be more aware
>of groups and their intent ...
>	is this: a B)ug report?  a R)equest for Software?  a C)riticism?
>...

I quoted as little as I needed; people who haven't read the original
really should, as I wanted to quote everything...

Generalizing this, a hook should be put into the posting programs so
that they look at (say) the active file, and submit the article to
inews based on the answers.  There is already precedent for this -
postings to net.jokes asks if the article should be rotated.

Putting a filename in the active file next to the newsgroup name would
be up to the site admin, so control moves down to a lower level instead
of being imbedded into inews and/or the news posting programs.

>			Anarchy rules!  Let the PEOPLE decide!!!

Followups to news.software.b (or should that be news.software.c? :-))

..Bob
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Bob Page, U of Lowell CS Dept.   page@ulowell.{uucp,edu,csnet}