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From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: cleaning up the net -- software solutions proposed
Message-ID: <3010@nsc.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 20-Jul-85 14:11:13 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jul 20 14:11:13 1985
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Reply-To: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach)
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In article <2162@sdcrdcf.UUCP> jonab@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Jonathan Biggar) writes:
>
>A new suggestion:  Have all of the Subject and Newsgroups lines of locally
>posted articles mailed to the SA every day.  This would allow responsible
>SAs to keep reign on local users without having to read all of the news 
>to find any offenders.  This could be easily done with a sed or awk script
>that looks through the /usr/lib/news/log file.

The problem we have right now is sites with SA's that do not keep an eye on
their people. We can't get a lot of sites to upgrade their software
already. How likely are these people going to be to upgrade if we add
'features' that cause the software to consistently squawk at them? Even if
we DID add this kind of software, many SA's (and I include myself in that
category) would simply disable this feature. I happen to trust my users
enough not to constantly keep an eye on them -- I expect others out there
feel the same, and there are also the SA's who simply wouldn't want the
bother.

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