Path: utzoo!utgpu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!well!jef From: jef@well.sf.ca.us (Jef Poskanzer) Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: Re: What should be done w/ this newsgroup (re: evil Rutgers :-) Message-ID: <23256@well.sf.ca.us> Date: 21 Feb 91 01:12:18 GMT References: Reply-To: Jef Poskanzer Organization: Paratheo-Anametamystikhood Of Eris Esoteric, Ada Lovelace Cabal Lines: 33 Approved: by the creator of alt.hackers In the referenced message, hundt@OCCLUSAL.RUTGERS.EDU (Thomas M. Hundt) wrote: }PROPOSAL: }One of you guys set yourself up as the moderator. }BUT: leave in place the present system of "whoever can figure it }out can post what they want". }AND: then you can ask Rutgers to discontinue the auto-moderator }feature. That would be me. I suppose I could lie and set it up this way, but in fact my policy would be to reject all non-forged postings. If you don't like the idea of self-moderation, you should (a) bring up the point in alt.config, where it belongs, and (b) not screw things up for those who do like it. }one of those who asked Rutgers to install the thing in the first place :-) Thanks. Do you often sabotage other people's work? Without even discussing it with them first? }[*] I mean, it is conceivable, isn't it, that someone *might* }*just* have a secure netnews environment where it's *not* trivial to }self-approve articles?? No, it's not conceivable, since I know of three different ways to post to moderated groups that don't depend on the local site. --- Jef Jef Poskanzer jef@well.sf.ca.us {apple, ucbvax, hplabs}!well!jef "People ask if I have myself read all the books I quote. I reply that I have not; it would certainly have meant spending my life reading very bad books." -- Blaise Pascal