Re: [leafnode-list] custom placeholder

[Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Aug 12, 1999 at 12:13:15PM -0700, Jeff Grossman wrote:

> Why would somebody need or want a custom placeholder?

"News will be fetched at <local times>" "This software is mantained by 
<foo>.  If it breeaks, go hassle them."  "If you are trying to read 
alt.binaries, don't bother - I disabled that heirachy."

It could also be used to translate the message into the local language
so that the readers would have some chance of understanding what was
being said, or simply be changed on the whim of the sysadmin.  

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