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Date:      Mon, 24 Apr 1995 23:09:30 -0700
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com>
To:        "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@kryten.atinc.com>
Cc:        Gary Roberts <gary@wcs.uq.oz.au>, Jeffrey Hsu <hsu@freefall.cdrom.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Gating hackers into the newsgroups 
Message-ID:  <15038.798790170@freefall.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 25 Apr 95 01:00:37 EDT." <Pine.3.89.9504250048.N27338-0100000@kryten.atinc.com> 

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> aside from some extra code, the only reservation i have about the above 
> scheme is:  the newbie gets someone new each time.  no rapport is built 
> up between the mentor and the newbie.  the mentor has no context of other 
> problems that this newbie has encountered.  each question is a new ball game.

This is easy enough - you can include the mentor's email address back
after the second round, say.  It could be configurable.  All the
remailer has to do is take itself out of the Reply-To loop and its job
is finished.

> 	this can be an advantage, the newbie gets diversity of 
> responders.  but a newbie/mentor relationship might be better for the newbie.

Oh, don't misunderstand - the mentor is assigned ONCE, at the
beginning of the exchange.  Anything referrring to that message ID
automatically gets sent to one side or the other of the original pair,
not somebody new each time.

						Jordan



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