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From: weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu (Obnoxious Emacs Weenie)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Take a sniff of Gnews
Message-ID: <7991@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: 25 Mar 88 04:11:20 GMT
References: <1501@looking.UUCP> <34@ncar.ucar.edu> <7928@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <717@oberlin.UUCP>
Sender: usenet@agate.BERKELEY.EDU
Reply-To: weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu (a small gnews-ance)
Organization: Brahms Gang Posting Central
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Summary: Get a haircut
In-reply-to: rice@oberlin.UUCP (Brian Rice)


In article <717@oberlin.UUCP>, rice@oberlin (Brian Rice) writes:
>Suppose that Gnews had the requisite rules to implement for all these fairy
>stories.

Let's see now.  There was...

:if it showed up to a potential sci.astro poster on "Velikovsky":
:to an article cross-posted to comp.unix.{questions,wizards}.
:in response to a short article containing "I vote yes/no" in news.groups.

>	   THEN suppose weemba tried to post THAT MESSAGE.

On this tiny 3-for-3 sample, it looks like it would go through pretty
easily, now doesn't it?

>He'd be y-or-n'ing for days!

I suspect news.misc would have very few rules, if any, for precisely the
reason being mentioned.

Here, Brian, maybe *you* need a rule:

** You are responding to a member of the Brahms Gang.  It would improve
** matters immensely, net-bandwith-wise, if in trying to be clever with
** them logic-wise, you were also correct.

** Do we understand each other? (y or n)

ucbvax!garnet!weemba	Matthew P Wiener/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720