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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
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Posted: Sun Nov  3 13:14:06 1985
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> 
> 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