Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!steinmetz!welty
From: welty@steinmetz.ge.com (richard welty)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Wish List re: Crossposting
Summary: another, very simple, suggestion ...
Message-ID: <10837@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 13 May 88 18:25:51 GMT
References: <439@bacchus.DEC.COM> <52859@sun.uucp> <9879@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <53022@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: welty@steinmetz.UUCP (richard welty)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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Several people have talked about various proposed solutions to
the crossposting problem.  Here is a simple one that occured
to me last night ...

Don't allow a user to post to a group unless the group is
currently marked as subscribed to in the user's .newsrc file.
It seems to me that the bulk of the bandwidth-wasting flame
wars between various groups start because some moron crossposted
to a bunch of groups said moron didn't read, because the moron
thought the group name seemed appropriate.  I make it a point
to never post to a group unless I've been reading it for long
enough to catch the general trends, but many don't.

Comments?
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Richard Welty  518-387-6346
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