Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!amdahl!rtech!llama!daveb From: daveb@llama.rtech.UUCP (It takes a clear mind to make it) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Monitoring site output (formerly portal bashing) Message-ID: <2134@rtech.UUCP> Date: 2 Jun 88 04:59:59 GMT Sender: news@rtech.UUCP Reply-To: daveb@rtech.UUCP (It takes a clear mind to make it) Organization: Relational Technology, Inc. Alameda, CA Lines: 25 There is discussion of site responsibility for postings, particularly from commercial USENET service providers like Portal and the Well. Many people would agree that these sites have a greater moral obligation to the net because of the perceived lack of skill/knowledge of their user base. One way to handle this would be to have a news administartion option that in effect moderated all outgoing articles from a site. That is, the site news administator would be required to read and approve an outgoing article before it was spooled offsite. Yes, this would increase the administative burden, and slow the propagation marginally. But there sure seems to be a growing feeling that something should be done. I imagine this could be done as a shell wrapper to inews, substituting a "local" distribution for the user's choice. Given a choice, I'd prefer that it *not* be done as a compile time CENSOR_OUTGOING option. Discussion? -dB {amdahl, cpsc6a, mtxinu, sun, hoptoad}!rtech!daveb daveb@rtech.uucp