moderation of alt.sources vs. automated harangues

[Tom Neff]

Another thing we could do to cut down chatter in source groups is modify
the common newsreaders to automatically redirect followups to the associated
discussion group.  The algorithm would be:

	if following up to a non-null article, then
	if the newsgroup contains ".sources" but does not end in ".d", then
	if newsgroup.d exists, then
	change the Newsgroups: header line to newsgroup.d

This would take a while to percolate through but would be a civilized
thing to do.  It would not affect original postings (followups to the
null article at end-of-group in RN) or explicit invocations of Pnews,
but would still make a difference.
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