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From: lauren@vortex.UUCP (Lauren Weinstein)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: netnews "screeners" needed for satellite broadcasting
Message-ID: <453@vortex.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 25-Nov-84 21:25:23 EST
Article-I.D.: vortex.453
Posted: Sun Nov 25 21:25:23 1984
Date-Received: Wed, 28-Nov-84 02:02:14 EST
Organization: Vortex Technology, Los Angeles
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Greetings.  The satellite broadcast netnews experiment will be
getting underway in just a few weeks, and it's time to start
worrying about the collection of materials for broadcast.  I'm
already planning to send some of the mod.* groups and some of the
moderated fa.* digests, but there are a lot of other useful groups
that would also be suitable for broadcast if appropriately screened.

I would appreciate it if anyone who would be willing to act as
a "screener" for netnews materials for the satellite experiment
would get in touch with me by mail as soon as possible.  The idea
is to get a group of people, each of whom screens a certain segment
of netnews and filters out the unsuitable and repetitious materials.
Each would then encrypt the messages deemed suitable (using a 
special program I will provide) and mail them off via UUCP to the
satellite gateway (the sitename I have chosen is "stargate").
Once at the gateway, they will automatically be decrypted and 
scheduled into the satellite data stream on a repeating basis.

It would be helpful if volunteers were on machines willing to
call the gateway (in the Atlanta area) directly, but this is
not a requirement. 

Thanks much.

--Lauren--
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