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From: peterb@pbear.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Need for Stargate screening?
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Date: Wed, 16-Jan-85 05:38:51 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 16 05:38:51 1985
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Nf-From: pbear!peterb    Jan 11 12:46:00 1985


	Steve, You don't need a good size computer to get to  the
net.   Last  I looked, I saw some PC/XT's that were running PC/IX
and getting on  the  net.   So  it  doesn't  take  that  large  a
machine.

	Also, if you don't like the garbage that it running in  a
group,  drop  from  it.   It isn't that hard to skip a group that
doesn't have any good stuff.  Or if you can swing  it,  create  a
program  that  keeps  track  of  machine!user and build a list of
people that create "garbage" and have your news  filter  it  out.
(I  am not saying that the stuff on the net is garbage, just that
if STEVE thinks its garbage he can filter it out.)

	I  don't  think  that  stargate  screening   is   proper.
Stargate  should  be  used  to  speed up the sending/receiving of
mail/news.   This  would  definitly  speed  up  the  posting  and
distubution process.

	But if stargate is set on screening, those items that  it
refuses can still be deffered through land lines.  Hopefully they
will not be dropped.

					ima!pbear!peterb