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  1. Xref: sparky alt.peeves:18609 news.admin.policy:926
  2. Newsgroups: alt.peeves,news.admin.policy
  3. Path: sparky!uunet!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wupost!csus.edu!netcom.com!rickg
  4. From: rickg@netcom.com (Rick Gordon)
  5. Subject: Re: cross-posting peeves. Again
  6. Message-ID: <1992Dec28.190857.13477@netcom.com>
  7. Followup-To: alt.peeves
  8. Organization: Netcom - SF Bay, Cal Northifornia
  9. References: <LARRY.92Dec27031740@peak.psl.nmsu.edu>
  10. Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 19:08:57 GMT
  11. Lines: 31
  12.  
  13. In article <LARRY.92Dec27031740@peak.psl.nmsu.edu> Evil Engineer doin' it the Cowboy Way writes:
  14.  
  15. >Grouchy old bastard that I am, I find myself peeved by:
  16. >
  17. >     From: cs360@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Geoffrey William Buhl)
  18. >     Newsgroups: alt.flame,soc.culture.african.american,alt.politics.correct,
  19. >     misc.test,talk.politics.misc,alt.peeves,alt.politics.clinton,alt.
  20. >     president.clinton,alt.religion.kibology,alt.politics.bush,alt.fan.
  21. >     rush-limbaugh,alt.rap
  22. >     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  23. >Christ on a crutch! Look at that. Is that *13* cross-posts?
  24. >You left out alt.matters.of.great.importance.to.all.earth.people.
  25. > [ ... ]
  26. >Peeve: That the network accepts cross-posts to more than three or four
  27. >       newsgroups at a time in the first place. It's too much power to
  28. >       make available to someone whose testes haven't completely descended
  29. >       yet.
  30. > [ ... ]
  31. >Peeve: That the newsreaders faithfully pick up 13 cross-posts for
  32. >       someone's reply. It propagates the problem.
  33.  
  34. Solution: A small modification to pnews, inews, et al.  IF more than one
  35. group is specified in the Newsgroups: line, AND nothing is specified in
  36. the Followup-To: line, THEN fill in the string "poster" in the Followup-To:
  37. line.  Let the perp handle the responses.
  38.  
  39. >"Yeh, Buddy..            | larry@psl.nmsu.edu (Larry Cunningham)|  _~~_
  40.  
  41. -- 
  42. Rick Gordon      | "Loud is good." 
  43. rickg@netcom.com |   -- Frank Loesser 
  44.