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Re: Guidelines discussion: RFD

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From: Richard M. Hartman
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 18:56
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In article <TRSNYDER.92Nov7231333@queen.mcs.Drexel.edu> trsnyder@mcs.Drexel.edu (Bob Snyder) writes:
>>>>>> In article <567@ulogic.UUCP>, hartman@ulogic.UUCP (Richard M.
>>>>>> Hartman) writes:
>
>Much better than "Request for Discussion: rec.m".  Some newsreaders truncate
>Subject lines.  and generally a subject line "RFD: comp.sillyness reorg" should
>provoke enough interest to be read.
>
>Richard> Should the messages that are posted to the affected groups have
>Richard> more detailed, unobfuscated "Subject:" lines?  e.g. (1/2 :) ) :
>
>	> Subject: Your news group may be renamed!!! Speak up NOW!
>
>So when I go to read news.announce.newgroups, I see how many of these headers?
>:-)


Well it was only 1/2 serious...  Got any better ideas?  Perhaps
RFD to news.groups and a seperate msg (& header) to affected
groups referring them to the "real" discussion thread?


	-Richard Hartman
	hartman@ulogic.COM

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From: hartman@ulogic.UUCP (Richard M. Hartman)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.groups
Subject: Re: Guidelines discussion: RFD
Message-ID: <570@ulogic.UUCP>
Date: 10 Nov 92 18:56:22 GMT
References: <VPyuTB2w165w@momad.UUCP> <567@ulogic.UUCP> <TRSNYDER.92Nov7231333@queen.mcs.Drexel.edu>
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