From: Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)
Date: Sun Apr 30 2000 - 18:17:27 CDT
Erland Sommarskog <sommar@algonet.se> writes:
> Jonathan Grobe <grobe@netins.net> writes:
>> For what moderated groups that you know of is rewriting articles
>> by the moderator acceptable?
> I did this with a submission to se.internet.news.meddelanden - the
> announce group of the se.* hierarchy - fairly recently. Basically I only
> fixed the bad formatting. The initial action was to reject the
> submission and ask the user to reformat, because I don't want to his
> job. In end I found spent more time talking to this incompetent user
> that the formatting took.
I do this regularly for submissions to news.announce.newgroups as well. I
also perform various character transformations and line wrapping fixes on
posts to rec.arts.comics.creative too.
-- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>