Source: The Media Awareness Project of DrugSense
Pubdate: 29 Aug 98

Dear Newshawks:

We are trying to reduce the number of duplicate posts of the same item to
the news service. As the number of newshawks continues to grow, the chance
of the same item being sent in by more than one newshawk increases.

We have just added software code to roboeditor at  - where
you send the items, that checks for identical previously posted items and
sends them to the same member of the editing/posting team who should then
be able to verify if it is a duplicate.

But this only works if all the newshawks use the headline of the article as
the Subject: of the email sent to    -  roboeditor only
checks email subject lines for duplicates!

Details on other aspects of newshawking that make it easier for the posting
team to keep up are at:

http://www.mapinc.org/hawk.htm

Thank You, Newshawks, for all that you do!

Richard Lake 
Senior Editor; MAPnews, MAPnews-Digest and DrugNews-Digest
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Checked-by: Richard Lake