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- From: nadeau@bnr.ca (Rheal Nadeau)
- Subject: Re: what does it take to get someone to vote?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.164006.7431@bmerh85.bnr.ca>
- Sender: news@bmerh85.bnr.ca (Usenet News)
- Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd., Ottawa
- References: <n1258t@ofa123.fidonet.org> <1992Dec22.142741.18990@nastar.uucp>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 16:40:06 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec22.142741.18990@nastar.uucp> phardie@nastar.uucp (Pete Hardie) writes:
- >
- >I suppose that if the newsreader could automatically scan and report the
- >outstanding RFD/CFV count, and the groups affected, as a separate command,
- >this would be nice; this does have the problem with missing messages, history
- >file retention, etc, however.
-
- Or even simpler - the newsreader could give you access to a newsgroup
- (say we call it news.announce.newgroups) that has this information
- in it. Of course, being user-friendly, it doesn't force people to
- read this, just gives them the option.
-
- Yes, that would be very nice indeed. Now, why didn't anyone ever think
- of that?
-
- :-)
-
- The Rhealist - nadeau@bnr.ca - Speaking only for myself
-