Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!steinmetz!vdsvax!barnett From: barnett@vdsvax.steinmetz.UUCP (Bruce G Barnett) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: Cross posting to unwanted newsgroups Message-ID: <2701@vdsvax.steinmetz.UUCP> Date: Sat, 3-Oct-87 09:40:22 EDT Article-I.D.: vdsvax.2701 Posted: Sat Oct 3 09:40:22 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 7-Oct-87 06:39:50 EDT References: <1651@killer.UUCP> <2700@tekgvs.TEK.COM> <4096@well.UUCP> <1291@haddock.ISC.COM> <347@taux01.UUCP> Reply-To: barnett@vdsvax.steinmetz.UUCP (Bruce G Barnett) Distribution: world Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY Lines: 28 In article <347@taux01.UUCP> amos%taux01@nsc.com (Amos Shapir) writes: | May I suggest that future versions (C news?) will |just ask the poster for each newsgroup separately when following-up on |an article. May I suggest that when more than one newsgroup is in the reply, the posting program list the newsgroups and the description of each newsgroup (grep'ing on /usr/lib/news/newsgroup) and then ask the poster if she/he wants to exclude any newsgroups and/or request followup's to one primary newsgroup? Another idea: perhaps Rev C news, ( or next version of RN) should stress the idea of primary newsgroup (i.e. the first newsgroup in the list). I use savenews (aka keepnews) to archive articles, and it only stores one copy under the first newsgroup on the newsgroup line. There are times when I want to archive comp.unix.questions, but not comp.sources.wanted. If more posters put the primary newsgroup first, it would make it easier to separate the wheat from the chaff. :-) Comments? -- Bruce G. Barnett uunet!steinmetz!barnett