🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <14386@borg.cs.unc.edu>
 marshall@cs.unc.edu (Jonathan A. Marshall) writes:
>> Perhaps the command could be called G, for Group-info.  When you type
>> G, the system would display some basic information pertaining to the
>> current newsgroup.  This information could include:
>>     - The charter of the newsgroup,
>>     - Whether the newsgroup is moderated or unmoderated,
>>     - The e-mail address of the moderator,
>>     - How to obtain the FAQ for the newsgroup.

In article <166j70INNi6d@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
 aryeh@cash.ucsc.edu (Aryeh Friedman) writes:
> Sounds good but how do you purpose to make this data easily available
> to the news reader?


Perhaps the information could be treated internally as a permanent
article -- it wouldn't expire with the rest of the articles in a
newsgroup and couldn't be deleted, and it could only be superseded by
a newer version.

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aryeh@cash.ucsc.edu (Aryeh Friedman) writes:

> Sounds good but how do you purpose to make this data easly avaible to the new
> reader?
> -- 
> Aryeh M. Friedman, Just an other bum from net land.
> "Thats not a widget it is an intearctive template of some strange kind"
> aryeh@cash.ucsc.edu or sarek@tmi (as in the mud)

        In the newsgroups spool directory, a file can exist.

$SPOOLDIR/misc/popcorn/buttered/group-file

        If the file needs to be updated, a post can be made with the 
Subject:

Subject: UPDATE: Group-file
(And the appropriate Date: Supercedes: etc.)

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