Ahouxm.181 net.followup utzoo!decvax!harpo!ihnss!houxi!houxm!mel Mon Apr 26 15:36:02 1982 Re: This is just Ridiculous. I agree with Andy. Foo.followup is ridiculous, as is the now standard practice of submitting articles to whatever group one has a whim to use or invent. For Usenet to become really practical and a model for future, more public systems, some ways must be found to help the users: 1) know what is going on and expected of them in use of the net, and 2) limit the amount of unwanted material that must be scanned. The readnews program is the vehicle for experiments in this area. I wish the authors would stop making it more complicated and gadgetty, and address these fundamental human interface issues. Mel Haas , houxm!mel ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.