From: bcr@cernapo.cern.ch (Bill Riemers) Subject: Re: A proposal for organizing comp.os.linux. [NEW-CHANNELS] Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 10:29:33 GMT
Your proposal sounds good, but there are several problems with
your proposal.
1. The number of things you listed are way to long. Nobody
will remember them all letter-per-letter when writing a
news post.
2. On some systems kill-files are terrably slow. I used to
use kill-files with rn but, I found that normally it took
longer for it to kill the messages than it takes me to look
at the header and press the D key.
3. Some systems don't have experts that know how to use kill-
files. Forexample: The only news readers I found that
work at CERN are vnews from a vax and emacs from an hp.
However, the instructions for vnews are for unix systems.
(You can't even create .* files on a vax!) Simmularly
the emacs news readers has no operating instructions. Since,
I'm probably the only one here using the emacs news reader
there is little hope of finding an "expert" to ask.
However, I still think your suggestion has merit. If you can reduce
your list to a reasonable number of keywords, I'm sure people like
myself will invest the time to figure out a reasonable quick method
of killing messages.
Bill