Filtering

[Jacob Parker]

It might be a cool idea to set up a filter on the uw.* newsgroups so that
if a post is a cross-post to a non-uw.* newsgroup it will get filtered
out. I don't know why, it's probably just to annoy people, but sometimes
this happens (it is annoying because a reply to the post from any of the
listed newsgroups goes to all of them by default.)

I don't think I have ever seen a legitimate use at UW of outside
cross-posting.

[David Canzi]

In article <Pine.GSO.4.64.09...@cpu02.student.cs.uwaterloo.ca>,

I've seen some appropriate cross-posts between UW groups and
external groups in the past. A check of recent postings turns
up cross-posts between uw.forsale and kw.forsale, which also seem
appropriate to me. It doesn't seem like a good idea to prohibit
cross-posts between UW and external generally but there may be
specific subsets of UW groups, such as course groups, where it
would make sense.

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David Canzi