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From: diamant@cwruecmp.UUCP (John Diamant)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Reducing net abuse.
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Date: Thu, 15-Sep-83 13:04:51 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 15 13:04:51 1983
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I think the idea of censoring a large number of news categories is a
terrible idea.  One of the great things about Usenet is the fact that it
is a public forum in which ANYONE can speak.  I am in favor of having a
couple of moderated newsgroups like net.announce, but the idea of making
this a standard practice is repugnant to me.

Not only is it a bad idea (in my opinion), but it would be a virtually
impossible task to maintain a list of people on every machine who can
post to a category.  The lists would never agree with each other, and
news would get lost.

You can always use the n key if you don't like what is being posted, and
believe me, I do that quite a bit;  but it is still much better than the
alternative.

					John Diamant
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