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From: news@laas.laas.fr (USENET News System)
Newsgroups: alt.sources.d,comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: moderation of alt.sources vs. automated harangues
Summary: Moderation of alt.sources and the [un]shar controversy  :-)
Keywords: alt.sources, moderation, shar
Message-ID: <459@laas.laas.fr>
Date: 26 Oct 89 13:40:01 GMT
References: <2024@convex.UUCP> <1989Oct13.192835.1330@talos.uucp>
Reply-To: ralph@laas.laas.fr	(Ralph P. Sobek)
Organization: LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France
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Well, why not have an automatic filter program as moderator.  It would
check whether the posting has lines of the form #!/bin/[c]sh, 'cut
here', etc., and would only post those that conform (genrated by your
favorite `shar' program :-).  The others could either be automatically
posted to alt.sources.d, or if they contain flamage (nice new word,
huh?) then the filter could reply with a tasty hot flame of its own,
or pass the posting along to the USENET oracle server.		:-)  ;-(

Happy Halloween,


Ralph P. Sobek			  Disclaimer: The above ruminations are my own.
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