From: Brad Templeton (brad@clari.net)
Date: Mon Nov 10 1997 - 21:02:04 CST
On Tue, Nov 11, 1997 at 03:41:44PM +1300, Simon Lyall wrote:
> This is close to the "final version" .
>
> (hopefully)
>
> An "authoring agent" is software that assists the author is
> preparing the article.
>
> A "poster" is a human being (or software equivalent) that takes
> the finished article and prepares it for submission to the news
> stream.
>
> A "posting agent" is software that assists posters to prepare
> articles, including determining whether the final article is
> compliant, passing it on to an injecting agent for for final
> checking and injection into the news stream if so, and informing
> the poster with an explanation if not or if the injection agent
> rejects the article.
>
I think you need to be clearer on the author/poster distinction and the
distinction between their agents. They are often the same, but it
is good to explain where they might be different because...
> A "followup agent" is a combination of reading agent and
> posting agent that aids in the preparation and posting of a
> followup.
The role of the authoring agent is not clear here if different from a
posting agent.
>