Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.5 $; site ccvaxa Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!ccvaxa!seefromline From: preece@ccvaxa.UUCP Newsgroups: net.news Subject: Re: cleaning up the net -- software sol Message-ID: <1300007@ccvaxa> Date: Tue, 16-Jul-85 10:06:00 EDT Article-I.D.: ccvaxa.1300007 Posted: Tue Jul 16 10:06:00 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 18-Jul-85 05:32:56 EDT References: <2961@nsc.UUCP> Lines: 25 Nf-ID: #R:nsc.UUCP:-296100:ccvaxa:1300007:000:1132 Nf-From: ccvaxa.UUCP!preece Jul 16 09:06:00 1985 I don't like the hitlist idea and I don't like length restrictions, but I think the other two suggestions are very sensible indeed. They allow users to specifically go around the protective mechanism when they think it's important to do so (for instance, by posting an item twice, in different groups, instead of just cross posting, but they take care of the accidental transgressor. I don't mind the hitlist if it only controls the DISPLAY of items, but I still think the flow THROUGH a site should be untrammeled. Length limits are a definite lose. Some things take a lot of words to say. I've seen a lot of well thought out, cogent presentations that went on for many pages (as well as many irrational, silly, or otherwise vacuous over-long notes). If someone wants to spend the time it takes to type in a tousand lines of text, that should be the cost of admission. On the other hand, I would love to see some way of inhibiting extensive quotation. I don't see any such at the moment, except for immediate, massive flaming at those who quote excessively. -- scott preece gould/csd - urbana ihnp4!uiucdcs!ccvaxa!preece