Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-sem.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!brl-tgr!brl-sem!ron From: ron@brl-sem.ARPA (Ron Natalie) Newsgroups: net.news.group Subject: Re: Topology, connectivity, and garbage Message-ID: <477@brl-sem.ARPA> Date: Sun, 3-Nov-85 13:14:06 EST Article-I.D.: brl-sem.477 Posted: Sun Nov 3 13:14:06 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 5-Nov-85 08:25:20 EST References: <787@adobe.UUCP> Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 23 > > Another thought: have an "option" to news that allows a site to turn > off a newsgroup with the following behavior: Any article posted to it > that hits that site will be returned to the sender informing him that > the news got no farther than that particular site. No, no, no, no. It's bad enough that I get letters from idiot ARPANET sites that don't obey their own protocols and manage to mail me failed mail because some user's mailbox was over quota. I don't need a shit load of "your mail has been blocked" messages from everyone who installs a restrictive forwarder. I have no control on where my message gets distributed. Ideally now, it goes anywhere, but restrictions on distribution should be handled silently as they are now. > people from posting the value of pi. Or any article > n bytes. Or > whatever. Let's have a few constructive ideas, people. All I see in > this group is one of the following arguments: To really screen lists appropriately, you're going to have to moderate them. You'll have to balance these advantages with the problems of a moderated list. -Ron