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From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: net.news,net.news.adm,net.news.sa
Subject: Re: An idea on how to shape things up
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Date: Tue, 17-Sep-85 15:48:28 EDT
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In article <241@ukecc.UUCP> edward@ukecc.UUCP (Edward C. Bennett) writes:
>	What I suggest is this.
>	1. Make postnews a priviledged program.
>	2. Allow access to a user only after they have demonstrated
>		that they have read net.announce.newusers.

How about 'understood' instead of 'read'?

>	3. Possibly require potential posters to be read-only users

>	Of course this puts more work on SAs and NAs, but we are the
>ones responsible for the quality of this net.

The only problem is that the sites with the users most in need of this kind
of handholding are the sites where there isn't an identifiable SA or the SA
simply won't do the few hours of work neccessary (updating .newsrc,
upgrading software, passing out documents) that they ought to be doing.
Ignorant users can almost always be traced back to a missing or incompetent
SA, and giving that non-person another job to not do only puts an added
pressure on the SA's that DO do the job -- the ones that need it most will
continue to simply ignore it anyway... sigh.
-- 
Chuq Von Rospach nsc!chuqui@decwrl.ARPA {decwrl,hplabs,ihnp4}!nsc!chuqui

Take time to stop and count the ewoks...