Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84 chuqui version 1.7 9/23/84; site nsc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!nsc!chuqui From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) Newsgroups: net.news,net.news.adm,net.news.sa Subject: Re: An idea on how to shape things up Message-ID: <3273@nsc.UUCP> Date: Tue, 17-Sep-85 15:48:28 EDT Article-I.D.: nsc.3273 Posted: Tue Sep 17 15:48:28 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 19-Sep-85 05:32:01 EDT References: <241@ukecc.UUCP> Reply-To: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) Followup-To: net.news.adm Organization: Uncle Chuqui's Lemming Farm Lines: 25 Xref: watmath net.news:3947 net.news.adm:377 net.news.sa:182 In article <241@ukecc.UUCP> edward@ukecc.UUCP (Edward C. Bennett) writes: > 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. How about 'understood' instead of 'read'? > 3. Possibly require potential posters to be read-only users > Of course this puts more work on SAs and NAs, but we are the >ones responsible for the quality of this net. The only problem is that the sites with the users most in need of this kind of handholding are the sites where there isn't an identifiable SA or the SA simply won't do the few hours of work neccessary (updating .newsrc, upgrading software, passing out documents) that they ought to be doing. Ignorant users can almost always be traced back to a missing or incompetent SA, and giving that non-person another job to not do only puts an added pressure on the SA's that DO do the job -- the ones that need it most will continue to simply ignore it anyway... sigh. -- Chuq Von Rospach nsc!chuqui@decwrl.ARPA {decwrl,hplabs,ihnp4}!nsc!chuqui Take time to stop and count the ewoks... Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com