Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site wjvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!decwrl!sun!qubix!wjvax!ron 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 Article-I.D.: wjvax.320 Posted: Thu Jan 17 16:37:48 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 20-Jan-85 05:13:13 EST References: <1942@sun.uucp> Organization: Watkins Johnson, San Jose, Calif. Lines: 24 (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..... -- Ron Christian (Watkins-Johnson Co. San Jose, Calif.) {pesnta,twg,ios,qubix,turtlevax,tymix}!wjvax!ron