Re: motd or similar for readers

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From: J. Blustein
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 13:46

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In article <19lefqINNrtv@hpscdf.scd.hp.com> schmitz@scd.hp.com (John
Schmitz) asked:
>Has anybody considered adding a message of the day capability or
>similar to an NNTP server?  Many times I'd like to make sure
>EVERYBODY reads a message about an important announcement, not just
>the diligent readers of the local announcement group.  

    What kind of message would be so important that everybody had to
read it?  What is wrong with using news.announce.important?  It seems
to me this capability will be open to much abuse.

-- 
James Blustein                                        `Did you say "knives"?'
<jamie@uwo.ca>                                        `*Rotating* knives, yes.'

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From: jamie@csd.uwo.ca (J. Blustein)
Newsgroups: news.future
Subject: Re: motd or similar for readers
Summary: Why?
Keywords: announcement news.announce.important
Message-ID: <1992Sep26.134636.3137@julian.uwo.ca>
Date: 26 Sep 92 13:46:36 GMT
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