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From: trb@floyd.UUCP (Andy Tannenbaum)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: cost of sending netnews to aliens
Message-ID: <1869@floyd.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 31-Jul-83 12:15:09 EDT
Article-I.D.: floyd.1869
Posted: Sun Jul 31 12:15:09 1983
Date-Received: Tue, 2-Aug-83 16:06:03 EDT
Organization: Bell Labs, Whippany, NJ
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I have suggested this in private communications, but I don't think
I've mentioned it on the net.  Whaddya think:

People are complaining about the cost of sending netnews over long
distances, particularly across the Atlantic.  Luckily, there are only
two or three feeds to Europe, philabs, decvax, vax135.  So, tell ya
what we should do.  Hack readnews to allow a *moderator* on each of
those systems to approve each article that gets enqueued to get sent
to Europe.  The moderator would just type y/n after reading each
article.  With moderators at two or three different sites, the effect
of personal preferences would probably be eliminated, but Europe
wouldn't have to see our used car ads or multi answers to queries
about the true meaning of foo.

This would make it a bit slower for the moderator to read netnews, but
not terribly much, and the benefit of the service should outweigh the
inconvenience.

	Andy Tannenbaum   Bell Labs  Whippany, NJ   (201) 386-6491