Re: Proposal - alt.magick.astrology

On Saturday, January 29, 2022 12:22 PM Peter J Ross wrote:

> 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.

Used Newsguy for my very first booster 22 years ago, then switched to "Alt" 
as in "alt.net" for the next few. No idea if either still allow? Altopia 
used to send them on behalf of customers. Never bothered him all the years I 
had an account.

>>> 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 Be aware the propagation search is way out of date and no longer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.

Time permitting, willing to update anything except Mike's perl in the core. 
Ain't never going to mess with that headache inducing mess again!
 
> 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?

Probably not. But might be more enthusiastic in a few years. Counting down 
until I can retire!
-- 
William