Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!looking!brad
From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: A SERIOUS DILEMMA FOR THE NET
Keywords: Something MUST be done about Portal
Message-ID: <2048@looking.UUCP>
Date: 19 Sep 88 17:33:34 GMT
References: <7086@gryphon.CTS.COM> <7090@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Reply-To: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
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And whoever originated this much duplicated message has shown they are
about as valuable to the net as Portal.

The real message for Portal is this -- allow your site to get the bad
reputation that it is getting, so that people start putting it in their
kill files, and you are doing your own well behaved customers harm.
This will eventually come home to roost.

The solution is fairly easy.  For each new user, spool all postings
into a special directory where a Portal staff memeber will examine them,
and forward them on or reject them.  Once a user has got the hang of things,
the staff member can turn off their new user flag.

This should be the case at all sites of any size, but Portal would be
an excellent start.
-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd.  --  Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473