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From: sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne)
Newsgroups: news.groups,news.misc,news.stargate,news.sysadmin,news.admin
Subject: Re: the USENET problems
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Date: Sat, 11-Jul-87 14:39:37 EDT
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In article <7116@shemp.UCLA.EDU> srt@CS.UCLA.EDU (Matthew Merzbacher) writes:

>I've suggested before that the first type of moderation can be handled by
>forcing posting to source groups through a local (i.e., site) moderator,
>normally the new administrator.  This is an additional burden on the
>news admin, but since most sites rarely post more than one piece of source
>a month, it would hardly be overwhelming.

The only problem is the ever increasing number of one or two person sites. I
don't think I would have any problem getting my news adminstrator to let me
send out anything I wanted. Just a sec while I ask myself :-)

Seriously, with the cost of 286/386 machines, 3b1's on sale,
dcp/uuslave/uulink for pc's, mac's, amiga's and atari's; virtually anyone
who really wants to can get on the net looking like a normal uucp host.
There is currently no way to differentiate these small machines from larger
ones. 

If experienced users on larger machines cannot be trusted to post non
sources, I don't see how these new users can be.

I do think that multiple moderators is an interesting idea though and have
suggested that in the past. 

But with respect to the current moderator of comp.sources.misc, he DOES seem
to be getting things out with a minimum of delay. And is very responsive to
problem postings. He just recently was able to cancel the newguys posting's
before they had been on my machine for a day because of copyright
infringement problems. I would expect that while AT&T (for example) might
get very upset at people sending out their source code by mistake, prompt
actions like this will go a long way to keeping them from taking any
draconian measures against Usenet.

It's been said before, but I'll say it again. Lets give comp.sources.misc a
chance. If it isn't working well in a few months then bitch and complain.



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