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From: srt@ucla-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: cleaning up the net -- software solutions proposed
Message-ID: <6353@ucla-cs.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 17-Jul-85 21:39:50 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 17 21:39:50 1985
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Reply-To: srt@ucla-cs.UUCP (Scott Turner)
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Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department
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Keywords: cross-postings, etiquette, enforcement
Summary: 

I think the best solutions would be ones which only affect news being read
at the site where they are implemented, and not affect news at downstream
sites.

Most of the mail in this group over the last month has agreed that space
concerns aren't really a problem as far as passing news along goes (since
most sites poll their dependents daily and one day's news isn't all that
voluminous).  So I think that modifications like those Chuq suggested should
be implemented so as to effect only the machine at which they are "on".
For instance, truncating to 100 lines could occur only after the news has
been passed on to other sites.  Similarly for cross-posting restrictions -
these could be built in to the readers.

Such a solution would give each site a chance to make its own decisions,
and not be overly affected by the actions of an SA at some site half-way
across the US.

                                        -- Scott