Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!ima!pbear!peterb From: peterb@pbear.UUCP Newsgroups: net.news Subject: Re: Need for Stargate screening? Message-ID: <7@pbear.UUCP> Date: Wed, 16-Jan-85 05:38:51 EST Article-I.D.: pbear.7 Posted: Wed Jan 16 05:38:51 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 17-Jan-85 04:40:48 EST Lines: 24 Nf-ID: #R:sun:-191700:pbear:10300001:000:1025 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