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From: tale@rpi.edu (David C Lawrence)
Subject: Re: sys file entries for CNEWS
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References: <449@skyking.UUCP> <1991Mar23.193554.25944@looking.on.ca>
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Date: 27 Mar 91 05:14:11 GMT
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   From: chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg)
   Date: 26 Mar 91 17:00:22 GMT

   So what's next, automatic correction of misspelled newsgroups?

In obvious cases, sure.  I wish my inews rewrote =groups.  I live with
it just rejecting the article, forcing the user to correct it.  Either
is acceptable enough for me.  Why do you insinuate that automatically
correcting something like a misspelling is such an unspeakable evil?
(And no, I'm not talking about doing it to incoming news ---  just
articles being newly posted.)

   If the poster can't be bothered to learn the correct distribution
   keywords, then he deserves whatever limited propagation he gets.

I disagree strenuously.  Until I take the time to hack parsing and
rejection of bogus Distribution:s into inews then I will liberally err
on the favourable side of communication rather than silently fail to
inform him of problems.

   On the other hand, "/all" is useful in some contexts:
       ME:all/all

Wrong.  The distribution subfield is not relevant in ME.
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