Awatmath.1355
net.news
utzoo!decvax!watmath!bstempleton
Wed Dec 23 01:45:10 1981
Actual case of censorship and B news bug
I suspect that "Actual case of censorship" is partly the result of
a bad choice of name for net.jokes.q
Due to the feature of news that subscribing to net.jokes is subscribing
to net.jokes.all as well, users who did not explicitly ask for it still
wound up with subscriptions to net.jokes.q.  (I make this distinct
from the person who subscribes to ALL or net.all, they are saying they
are willing to read anything)
A group like net.jokes.q, to avoid controversy, should have perhaps
been set up so that people have to explicitly ask for it.
Should there istead be net.q.jokes, and net.q.db if people REALLY want
those insane newswires?

On another note, I wanted (with b news) to do a followup on the actual
case article, but I noted that it had a dash "-" in its title field.
Bad news, (no pun intended) since B news complained I had given an
invalid option to inews.  Somebody forgot to quote.  I point this out to
all news users in an effort to ensure they do not put quotes in their
titles if they can.
(oops - I mean dashes)

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