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From: edward@ukecc.UUCP (Edward C. Bennett)
Newsgroups: net.news,net.news.adm,net.news.sa
Subject: An idea on how to shape things up
Message-ID: <241@ukecc.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 13-Sep-85 11:25:00 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 13 11:25:00 1985
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	One of my biggest pet peeves concerning the news is postings from
people who OBVIOUSLY have not read the net.announce.newusers articles.
	What I suggest is this.

	1. Make postnews a priviledged program.

	2. Allow access to a user only after they have demonstrated
		that they have read net.announce.newusers.

	3. Possibly require potential posters to be read-only users
		for a period of time until they become familiar with
		the net and it's rules.

	Of course this puts more work on SAs and NAs, but we are the
ones responsible for the quality of this net. This also assumes that
all administators out there care about what comes out of thier site
and about the continued existance of the net.
	I'm not proposing restriction here so much as I am encouraging
education. Ignorance of the rules runs rampant on USENET and I believe
that with a little work much of this ignorance can be eliminated.

-- 
Edward C. Bennett

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