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From: chuq%plaid@Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Cross posting to unwanted newsgroups
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Date: Wed, 14-Oct-87 22:03:26 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 14 22:03:26 1987
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>Bruce and Brandon suggest that the news software should support the
>notion of "primary newsgroup".  This is {bad}.  If an article is on the
>topic of travel to C-speaking countries, it is EQUALLY appropriate for
>both rec.travel and comp.lang.c, and so are any followups as long as
>they stay on that topic.  If the followups only go to one newsgroup,
>interested people who don't subscribe to both groups may miss them.

I think a primary group is good. I suggested exactly that a couple of years
ago. You simply modify postnews and Pnews to send a followup to one of the
following:

	o the list of grousp in Followup-To:

	o The first group in the Newsgroup: lin

currently this is what they do, except the second rule is ALL groups instead
of the frist group in Newsgroup. The user, as always, can override if the
want, and if the original poster wants to keep a wider distribution they can
choose to do so.

Realistically, there is little need to widely spread followups. An riginal
posting can be spread around to let people know that a conversation has
started, but they should then decided on a place to finish it. You don't
carry on a conversation at a party by standing in all four corners of a room
and yelling at each other, do you?

chuq
Chuq Von Rospach					chuq@sun.COM
Editor, OtherRealms					Delphi: CHUQ