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From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin )
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: cleaning up the net -- software solutions proposed
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Date: Mon, 22-Jul-85 13:45:09 EDT
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In article <506@oliveb.UUCP> jerry@oliveb.UUCP (Jerry Aguirre) writes:
>Given the SLOW propagation time of the net (almost went into flame
>mode there) I will wait til the 19th for responses and then post a
>summary of the responses and the fix.
>
Given the slow propagation time of the net, the 19th of *what*?
(I'm reading this on July 22, by the way... :-)

>On the subject of restricting the length of articles.[...]
>Why don't we just find the user that posted the most for a month and cut
>him/her off for the following month.  That might add an incentive to
>keep things short.  As it is, the largest poster probably gets a kick out
>of being at the top of the list.
>
>				Jerry Aguirre @ Olivetti ATC

That brings to mind something I've been wondering about -- what happened
to those "statistics" postings we used to see? Have they been moved to
some group I don't happen to read? Anyway, I always DID think it was a
contest -- I was No. 2 once, and it gave me a warm feeling (or was that
heartburn?:-). I don't think I ever made No. 1, but maybe...

Actually, again there is a problem here -- sometimes the "mostest"
poster can be someone whose name is on a gateway (like the SF-Lovers
moderator) or maybe someone like the person at UT that posts the
(supposedly) daily "Stardate" articles in net.astro. So, they should
not be penalized. They are providing a net service, not imposing on it.

I think we might as well forget the length-restictions concept. There
are too many exceptions that need to be made and it can always be gotten
around, with the net effect being worse than leaving it alone...

Regards, 
Will Martin

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