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- From: obrien@netcom.com (Robert O'Brien)
- Subject: Re: cross-posting peeves. Again
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.070919.27473@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
- References: <LARRY.92Dec27031740@peak.psl.nmsu.edu> <1992Dec28.190857.13477@netcom.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 07:09:19 GMT
- Lines: 49
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- I think I have a better solution, but I'll save the reference stuff for last,
- since you've probably seen it already.
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- Solution:
- A simple modification in one mail-handling server somewhere -
- if crosspost count > 3 then
- 1. add rec.humor.oracle to the list
- 2. append the infamous woodchuck question to the text
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- ****** beyond here, there be only stuff you've probably seen ******
-
- In article <1992Dec28.190857.13477@netcom.com> rickg@netcom.com (Rick Gordon) writes:
- >In article <LARRY.92Dec27031740@peak.psl.nmsu.edu> Evil Engineer doin' it the Cowboy Way writes:
- >
- >>Grouchy old bastard that I am, I find myself peeved by:
- >>
- >> From: cs360@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Geoffrey William Buhl)
- >> Newsgroups: alt.flame,soc.culture.african.american,alt.politics.correct,
- >> misc.test,talk.politics.misc,alt.peeves,alt.politics.clinton,alt.
- >> president.clinton,alt.religion.kibology,alt.politics.bush,alt.fan.
- >> rush-limbaugh,alt.rap
- >> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >>Christ on a crutch! Look at that. Is that *13* cross-posts?
- >>You left out alt.matters.of.great.importance.to.all.earth.people.
- >> [ ... ]
- >>Peeve: That the network accepts cross-posts to more than three or four
- >> newsgroups at a time in the first place. It's too much power to
- >> make available to someone whose testes haven't completely descended
- >> yet.
- >> [ ... ]
- >>Peeve: That the newsreaders faithfully pick up 13 cross-posts for
- >> someone's reply. It propagates the problem.
- >
- >Solution: A small modification to pnews, inews, et al. IF more than one
- >group is specified in the Newsgroups: line, AND nothing is specified in
- >the Followup-To: line, THEN fill in the string "poster" in the Followup-To:
- >line. Let the perp handle the responses.
- >
- >>"Yeh, Buddy.. | larry@psl.nmsu.edu (Larry Cunningham)| _~~_
- >
- >--
- >Rick Gordon | "Loud is good."
- >rickg@netcom.com | -- Frank Loesser
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