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From: mesard@bbn.com (Wayne Mesard)
Newsgroups: alt.sources.d
Subject: Re: moderation of alt.sources vs. automated harangues
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Date: 17 Oct 89 17:14:43 GMT
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scott@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Scott Hazen Mueller) writes:
>alt.sources.mod	Moderated alternate source postings from alt.sources
>
>0.5 :-)
>
>It's too bad that it's not possible to ex-post-facto crosspost something...

Okay, so here's my Great Idea(tm):

A moderator could post a message once or twice a day containing
alt.sources message ID's in the Summary field.  Then a little program
could run once a night at local sites which would read these messages
and link the alt.sources articles into a.s.m.

The body of the moerator's message could contain editorial information
about the referenced articles or even a summary of interesting
non-source messages.  And, of course, every message from the moderator
should have the same string at the beginning of its Subject so that
anyone who doesn't even want to see these can put them in a KILL file.

It may not be worth the trouble given the typical volume in a.s.  But
it'd make everyone happy.

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void *Wayne_Mesard();         Mesard@BBN.COM         BBN, Cambridge, MA