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From: laura@utcsstat.UUCP (Laura Creighton)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Reducing net abuse.
Message-ID: <1069@utcsstat.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 16-Sep-83 00:43:56 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 16 00:43:56 1983
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Setting up "authorised users" will not work, folks, unless you prevent
them from sending mail as well. The University of Maryland decided to
implement this system, and a friend of mine got told he could no longer
post news articles. So he mails them to me and I post them. I would rather not
have to perform this function for all of usenet, but if that is what it
takes...

Interestingly enough I do not think that anyone found any of my friend's
submissions "inappropriate" (though many people, including me do not
agree with a lot of them), except, of course, those people who think that 
all non-technical newsroups are "inappropriate".

If you set aside "authorised users" then be prepared to see a lot of
people set up mailing depots where people can beat the system. So what
have you done -- only made the mail routing more difficult for everyone.

laura creighton
utzoo!utcsstat!laura