Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!sun-barr!texsun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!mcvax!ukc!stl!dww From: dww@stl.stc.co.uk (David Wright) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: Article Classification is the key to solving USENET problems. Message-ID: <1459@stl.stc.co.uk> Date: 14 May 89 22:48:05 GMT References: <3222@looking.UUCP> <3233@looking.UUCP> <8376@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> Sender: news@stl.stc.co.uk Reply-To: "David Wright" Organization: STC Technology Limited, London Road, Harlow, Essex, UK Lines: 36 In article <8376@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> vnend@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (D. W. James) writes: #In article <3233@looking.UUCP> brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) writes: #)I believe that the final key to solving most of the problems on USENET is #)better article classification. Article headers should contain as much #)information ... #)To this end, I am having written, at my own expense, a more powerful #)postnews/Pnews program. This will include a simple language to control #)posting. Tests can be made, menus can be popped up and information can #)be added to articles, both on a global or newsgroup specific basis. I #)will give this program away free. # # Let me get this straight. Are you saying that since USENET doesn't #work the way Brad Templeton wants it to, and because you have spent so much #of your own time writing something that you think makes reading news easier #for you, that the *entire net* should modify its software to conform to your #software? And even to the point of suggesting (in the posting about #'broken' reference lines) that any site that broke a reference line (broken #being your own definition) be cut off from the net? Brad, your chutzpa #amazes me. Mr James, your rudeness amazes me. Brad is going to produce a new Pnews program that may be useful, and is giving it to the net - the time-honoured way of progress on the net. If generally thought useful, it will be used, and we will all be grateful. If not thought useful, it will be ignored, though most of us will still be grateful for the offer. When I read Brad's posting, I though that for once not even the most destructive netters will be able to find an objection this time. I should have known better. I suggest that you appologise to Brad (and to the net) for your unreasonable behaviour. If not, you risk your name being used in future as a unit of measurement for unjustified flaming, the referenced posting being the standard unit of 1 kiloJames. Regards, "None shall be enslaved by poverty, ignorance or conformity" David Wright STL, London Road, Harlow, Essex CM17 9NA, UK dww@stl.stc.co.uk ...uunet!mcvax!ukc!stl!dww PSI%234237100122::DWW