Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!nrl-cmf!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!gatech!purdue!decwrl!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!vsi!friedl 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> Distribution: na Organization: V-Systems, Inc. -- Santa Ana, CA Lines: 15 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 ;-) ? -- Steve Friedl V-Systems, Inc. (714) 545-6442 3B2-kind-of-guy friedl@vsi.com {backbones}!vsi.com!friedl attmail!vsi!friedl