Re: Proposal - alt.magick.astrology

On 2022-01-29, William Bagwell <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Saturday, January 29, 2022 10:04 AM Peter J Ross wrote:
>
>> Adam doesn't do that. I used to, but only if there was no other way of
>> making the proponent shut up and go away.
>
> I have not had an account allowing control messages for a decade or more.

The server I used for control messages no longer exists. I know of an
alternative that might work, but I'm not going to mention it when a
trigger-happy proponent is listening.

>> For further basic advice, see here:
>> 
>> http://alt-config.net/
>
> Be aware the propagation search is way out of date and no longer maintained. 
> Cron only runs once a year and only about 9 of the 50 servers /appeared/ to 
> update this year. No guarantee they actually did...

Death of Usenet. Film at 11.

Would you be willing to upgrade validator.php? I notice that it catches
"discuss" and "discussion" only as the first word of the short
description, and doesn't catch words like "place" and "forum" at all.

These are the relevant parts of the existing code:

#v+

$warningDiscuss = $warningString1 . "Words such as \"discuss\" or \"discussion\" are superfluous in a newsgroup description; all newsgroups are intended for discussion." . $warningString2;


if (preg_match('/^[Dd]iscuss(ion)*/', $groupDesc)) {
	$warn = TRUE;
	echo $warningDiscuss;
}

#v-

But is it worth the effort?

-- 
PJR :-)