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From: stan@teltone.UUCP ()
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: Ladies and Gentlewombats, a little reminder
Message-ID: <243@teltone.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 22-Feb-84 15:57:59 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 22 15:57:59 1984
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Why doesn't somebody just modify postnews so that when someone tries
to post a message to a given newsgroup, a message is printed out
before hand.  If the message is short, it shouldn't hurt anybody
to see the message every time an article is posted.  You could even
set things up so the person sees the message only once.

The message printed would describe what the newsgroup is for, and allow
the user to abort postnews if he/she discovers this is the wrong group.
One could set up a directory named /usr/lib/news/notices.  In that
directory would be one shell script for each newsgroup for which a message
should be printed.  The shell script would echo a short message to the
user and then prompt for input, the response reflected in the exit code
of the shell script.

Postnews would prompt for the newsgroup line,
run the shell script(s) for the newsgroup(s), and continue on
if the exit code indicated OK status.  If the user's response was to abort,
then tell him/her where to find info. on which newsgroups to post to.

I could do all this myself, but maybe someone in a more *official*
position should do it (if they felt it was worthwhile, that is).