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From: rcodi@yabbie.rmit.oz (Ian Donaldson)
Newsgroups: net.sources.d
Subject: Re: How about dividing net.sources... (really, Re: followups)
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Date: Sat, 20-Sep-86 15:41:39 EDT
Article-I.D.: yabbie.336
Posted: Sat Sep 20 15:41:39 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 23-Sep-86 22:02:03 EDT
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Organization: RMIT Comm & Elec Eng, Melbourne, Australia.
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Summary: this should really be prevented...automatically

In article , turner@imagen.UUCP writes:
> arrrggghhhhhh!!!!! doesn't ANYONE listen ???? this discussion (and
> this followup) belong in net.sources.d DAMN IT !!!!

Perhaps the news software should automatically control
where followups go to.  I gather the "Followup-To:" control
line helps (or whatever it is called).  Perhaps all postings to all.sources 
should AUTOMATICALLY generate a "Followup-To:  all.sources.d" line in 
the posting.

Perhaps there should be a way to configurably prevent followups
in certain groups altogether?  (just like the y/n field in the active
field for allowing postings)

News 2.10.3 "knows" about all.sources anyway (along with all.jokes...),
so this is no more a hack than thats already there...

It should all be configurable - NOT hard-coded into the sources.
News should have a config file like ... sendmail.cf (ugh, but
at least its very general) - at the moment, binaries can't be ported
to machines that live in different domains even.

Getting it changed would obviously take considerable time... ho hum

Ian Donaldson

ps: I love the message:  "Are you sure this is really source?" when
    you post to net.sources.d !!