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- From: bcr@cernapo.cern.ch (Bill Riemers)
- Subject: Re: A proposal for organizing comp.os.linux. [NEW-CHANNELS]
- In-Reply-To: jy10033@ehsn11.cen.uiuc.edu's message of Sun, 13 Dec 1992 00:47:07 GMT
- Message-ID: <BCR.92Dec13112933@hfl3sn02.cern.ch>
- Sender: news@dxcern.cern.ch (USENET News System)
- Organization: CERN, European Research Center for High Energy Physics
- References: <Bz6A6K.HFu@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 10:29:33 GMT
- Lines: 35
-
- Your proposal sounds good, but there are several problems with
- your proposal.
-
- 1. The number of things you listed are way to long. Nobody
- will remember them all letter-per-letter when writing a
- news post.
-
- 2. On some systems kill-files are terrably slow. I used to
- use kill-files with rn but, I found that normally it took
- longer for it to kill the messages than it takes me to look
- at the header and press the D key.
-
- 3. Some systems don't have experts that know how to use kill-
- files. Forexample: The only news readers I found that
- work at CERN are vnews from a vax and emacs from an hp.
- However, the instructions for vnews are for unix systems.
- (You can't even create .* files on a vax!) Simmularly
- the emacs news readers has no operating instructions. Since,
- I'm probably the only one here using the emacs news reader
- there is little hope of finding an "expert" to ask.
-
- However, I still think your suggestion has merit. If you can reduce
- your list to a reasonable number of keywords, I'm sure people like
- myself will invest the time to figure out a reasonable quick method
- of killing messages.
-
-
- Bill
- --
- "Yeti! Saw them in the London Underground twenty years ago. Ghosts!
- A headless woman used to walk through my bedroom at midnight. Mermaids?
- Grandpa was rescued from the Marie Celeste by one. Vampires? I always
- wondered where my dad went to at night. Telepathy? Right now you're
- thinking that I'm talking crap. So what can you tell me that I won't
- believe in?" - Andrew Hunt, "CAT'S CRADLE: WITCH MARK"
-