Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!gatech!hao!oddjob!gargoyle!ihnp4!alberta!ubc-vision!van-bc!sl From: sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne) Newsgroups: news.groups,news.misc,news.stargate,news.sysadmin,news.admin Subject: Re: the USENET problems Message-ID: <991@van-bc.UUCP> Date: Sat, 11-Jul-87 14:39:37 EDT Article-I.D.: van-bc.991 Posted: Sat Jul 11 14:39:37 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 12-Jul-87 16:57:16 EDT References: <266@brandx.rutgers.edu> <15982@gatech.gatech.edu> Reply-To: sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne) Organization: Public Access Network, Vancouver, BC. Lines: 40 Xref: mnetor news.groups:1229 news.misc:751 news.stargate:251 news.sysadmin:303 news.admin:689 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. -- {ihnp4!alberta!ubc-vision,uunet}!van-bc!Stuart.Lynne Vancouver,BC,604-937-7532