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From: friedl@vsi.UUCP (Stephen J. Friedl)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: How to eliminate the cost of over 1/5 (or more) of net traffic
Summary: But can we grade messages too?
Keywords: stargate moderated news
Message-ID: <659@vsi.UUCP>
Date: 12 May 88 17:13:35 GMT
References: <1616@looking.UUCP> <719@fig.bbn.com> <196@ssbn.WLK.COM> <52918@sun.uucp>
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Organization: V-Systems, Inc. -- Santa Ana, CA
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In article <52918@sun.uucp>, chuq@plaid.Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
< Step 1 is to define a grade for every newsgroup. Arbitrarily lets call them
< 	A-F and Z. That should be fine enough granulairity for most folks.
< 	Highest priority is A, lowest priority is F, Z is for groups you
< 	refuse to pass along.
< [...]
< I'm sure I'm going to get accused for being fascist by claiming that
< all messages are not created equal, but that's life.

How about defining grades on a per-message basis, so "certain
net individuals" get graded as well ;-) ?

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