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From: phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: Doomsday cometh (VERY LONG)
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Date: Sat, 7-Sep-85 02:00:28 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep  7 02:00:28 1985
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It's not clear to me it's as bad as that. With the new 2.10.3, you
can disable automatic newsgroup creation. If something isn't in my
active file, it gets junked. Once we get most of the important sites
like the backbones running 2.10.3, it will be nearly impossible for
a rogue SA to create a bogus newsgroup and have it get very far.

Someone could post into the wrong group but he is sure to get letter
bombs in his mailbox if he does that enough. He probably won't get
any positive feedback. And if things don't clear up, his site or
his feed could be threatened with being cut off.

So I think we haven't really lost control yet. If in fact the S/N
ratio does keep getting worse, we could easily start an elitist
net. Perhaps it would be moderated. But I think something could
always be done...

-- 
 The overseas Chinese are the Jews of Asia.

 Phil Ngai (408) 749-5720
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