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From: ron@wjvax.UUCP (Ron Christian)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Moderate landline Usenet first?
Message-ID: <320@wjvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 17-Jan-85 16:37:48 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 17 16:37:48 1985
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(Spotted the bug the other day...)

I came in on this discussion a bit late, but is there some reason
why we couldn't pass the professional (moderated) newsgroups through
stargate, and continue to pass the non-professional/narrow-interest/whatever
newsgroups through the present infrastructure?  Then some biologist
in maine gets his professional-oriented newsgroup from stargate and
us original Usenetters still have net.rec and net.games.  This cuts
down on the load at the backbone sites and still provides a moderated
stargate link.  The backbone sites would have to remain as news senders,
though, so hopefully the reduced traffic would enable them to remain
in business.

Another question:  If the backbones stop passing news altogether, would
they still pass mail?  I would think so, since mail through stargate
would be impossible.  (moderated mail!  No Thanks!)  What's to keep us
hackers from starting our own little net news service with aliases and
cc lists?  Chaotic, of course, but if the 'free' net dies, what choice
would we have?  Gee, I could probably write the mini-net software
myself.....
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	Ron Christian  (Watkins-Johnson Co.  San Jose, Calif.)
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