Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!rutgers!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!ucdavis!uop!robert From: robert@uop.UUCP (Glen Fiddich) Newsgroups: news.misc Subject: Re: A four-line-limit para-proposal Message-ID: <482@uop.UUCP> Date: Thu, 13-Aug-87 00:15:19 EDT Article-I.D.: uop.482 Posted: Thu Aug 13 00:15:19 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 15-Aug-87 07:21:53 EDT References: <479@unisoft.UUCP> <1171@rayssd.RAY.COM> <836@klipper.cs.vu.nl> <3539@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> Organization: A Quart is not Enough Inc. Lines: 11 Summary: then again In article <3539@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>, mangler@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (System Mangler) writes: > In article <145@ers.UUCP>, lyndon@ers.UUCP (Lyndon Nerenberg) writes: > Shouldn't this be something for the news > administrator to put in a configuration file, instead of each poster > being left to figure out a (typically rather poor) path for himself? > When routes change, it's easier for the administrator to edit one file > than to get everyone to update their .signature. in theory this is true, but at this school, where students change hands for the assistant admin jobs, you don't always get someone who is "newsworthy" enough to figure out what to do next.