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Re: CFD: lugnet.announce
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Date: 
Mon, 12 Oct 1998 18:59:09 GMT
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mattdm@mattdm.org (Matthew Miller) writes:

How about making lugnet.announce such that "Followup-To" must be set to
another group?

I like that.  I bet it would go a long ways toward keeping newbies from
posting non-announcements there too.

Probably pretty easy to add to the injection stuff.  Sounds like a good
second thing to try before resorting to more stuff.  (The first thing was
changing the web page listing of groups.)

--Todd



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  Re: CFD: lugnet.announce
 
(...) Todd, I'd agree that this is generally a normal assumption. But I still see the use for a general announcement group, and lugnet.announce sure seems like the intuitive name for that too. How about making lugnet.announce such that "Followup-To" (...) (26 years ago, 12-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)

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