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From: wayne@fmsrl7.UUCP
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Subject: Re: the USENET problems
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Date: Tue, 14-Jul-87 17:20:27 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 14 17:20:27 1987
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	I have given the moderation problem a bit of thought and think I
may have a solution.  Since I am not a moderator, nor am I a backbone site,
I expect there to be flaws in this.  It is an initial proposal and needs
work to complete.

	When a user posts an article to a "moderated" group, the article 
is actually posted to an unmoderated group that a limited number of sites
carry.  This would flood a small number of sites with the article, giving
it a better chance to make it to the moderator.  The moderation approved
message could then cause the article to be transferred from the one group
to the other, maintaining the article ID.  At this point it would go out
as a "normal" moderated article.

	Benefits:  
	1) Any site that is willing to carry the traffic can have
	access to the unmoderated information.
	2) The moderator will have a better chance of getting the article.
	3) Anyone will be able to post to the unmoderated group.
	4) The posting interface remains constant.

	Problems:
	1) Software will have to be rewritten.
	2) Noise level may go up in some groups.
	3) People will have to understand that there is an unmoderated
	newsgroup and a seperate, collected, subset group.
	4) Every moderated group would require an associated unmoderated
	group.

Think it over.  Comment.  Critique.

	Looks like it solves most of the problems I've seen people complain
about.  The noise will be in the unmoderated group, not in the moderated one.
Readers can get ALL important info by reading the moderated group (not
worrying about missing stuff) but anyone may look at the unmoderated if
s/he so chooses.

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