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From: milton@milton.acs.washington.edu (Stephen Milton)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs
Subject: Re: Age and granting access
Message-ID: <1482@milton.acs.washington.edu>
Date: 20 Jan 90 01:42:07 GMT
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Reply-To: milton@milton.acs.washington.edu (Stephen Milton)
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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I too feel that all this talk of validation and exclusion is mightily
disheartening seeing as how THIS SYSTEM is totally non exclusive and
also happens to be the most beneficial BBS in the world.

The only true way to run a BBS is totally open access...the information
that is transmitted across your machine is the important thing...not
who types it in.

A good way to do this is in systems where peopl who you feel have proved
themselves are given aide access, and their duty is to be on line censors
--when someone gets out of line they have the authority to tag or delete
the message.

This system encourages responsible action becasuse it doesn't really 
matter how many GOOD users have aide status...it just enhances the
readability of the bbs.

Steve Milton...milton@milton.u.washington.edu
Sysop of the Turing Registry (developmental) BBS