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From: paul@masscomp.UUCP (Paul Cantrell)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: receiving vs. sending satellite netnews
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Date: Wed, 26-Dec-84 20:35:41 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 26 20:35:41 1984
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Lauren:

I wonder if you would clear up a couple of points about how stargate would
work? If we assume that not all people on the network will be connected to
stargate for whatever reason, then it makes sense to me that all mail will
be sent in duplicate: to stargate and also across the currently existing
network. Thus, I really don't see how this would decrease the load on the
current backbone machines.

As for people who want a more efficient way of receiving news, it is true
that they can elect to connect to stargate. However, since this is only
a censored (sorry, moderated) subset of the news, I for one would not be
satisfied with ONLY stargate; I would still want the other news too...
Now if ALL of the news was going to be broadcast, this might be different.
I have seen several people guess at why the news is to be 100% moderated.
However, I wonder if you would post your reasons for this, straight from
the horses mouth, so to say, as I feel it is one of the strongest arguments
AGAINST the system. If it is indeed because there are standards for what
can be broadcast, isn't something like ROT13 effective for this?

If the reasons for the moderation is simply that the network is getting
loaded with a tremendous amount of fluff (we all admit that this is true),
then it seems to me that more moderated newsgroups are in order, but that
this should not be tied directly to the stargate project. I am willing to
be convinced otherwise, I just haven't heard your reasons why you think
there should be such a strong binding between the distribution method and
the control of content on the network.

Anyway, I guess that what I am asking for is a clarification of how machines
would connect to stargate in both send and receive modes, why restrictions
on content are necessary if indeed they are, and most importantly: how all
this will affect the rest of the network.

Don't get me wrong, I think it is a very interesting experiment, and we are
all interested in how it proceeds. I would just like to better understand
what the impact is likely to be.

					PC