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From: swarbric@tramp.Colorado.EDU (Frank Swarbrick)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Wish List re: Crossposting
Message-ID: <6075@sigi.Colorado.EDU>
Date: 15 May 88 01:47:18 GMT
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In article <10837@steinmetz.ge.com> welty@steinmetz.UUCP (richard welty) writes:
: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.

I don't know how well this would work.  I don't ever unsubscribe to newsgroups.
I just don't read them.  This is probably true for a lot of people.

Or maybe I'm a little confused about something.  When I got access my .newsrc
file had all of the currently available newsgroups already in it.  Is this
not usually true at most sites?

Frank Swarbrick (and his cat)           swarbric@tramp.Colorado.EDU
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"We've seen each other's hands.  What else is there?"