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From: biep@klipper.UUCP (J. A. "Biep" Durieux)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: 2+1/2 page of (more or less) useful, interesting & relevant remarks.
Message-ID: <499@klipper.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 17-Sep-85 17:50:06 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 17 17:50:06 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 20-Sep-85 06:39:18 EDT
Reply-To: biep@klipper.UUCP (J. A. "Biep" Durieux)
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	Why not give Pnews/postnews/whatever other program a password, and
	publish that in net.announce.newusers. Then those who haven't read
	that don't know the password. Pnews/etc. will tell where they can
	find the password. If necessary it might be changed (by a control
	message), so that all old timers are forced to reread the stuff.
	(I myself don't like that, by the way).

The promised other remarks:

	1) There is a limited capacity for newstransmission, or so it seems.
		people, especially libertarians and other net people hate
		anything which doesn't look like free market/anarchy. So:
		bandwith has to be sold. Every user gets, say, 100 centi-
		votes, which he may spread according to his liking over
		the rest of the net community. Anybody may post according
		to the number of votes he gets. Implementation details will
		be skipped due to probable impossibility, but stuff in
		mod.control might be useful. At least, non-read ramblings
		will be reduced. 

	2) net.announce.newusers is lacking a "historical guide to USENET".
		USENET is a network which exists by grace of its history.
		if Gene and Chuq and Mark and Larry and Rich (random order)
		weren't known by the masses, if one hasn't followed the
		discussions of why it may be catastrophal to post articles
		like this, which clutter up net space, if one hasn't read
		about Lauren, his stargate project, and the net.fascism
		discussions, one cannot be expected to stay within the
		net traditions. The historical facts, problems, delicate
		points etc. have to be explained.

	3) I would have liked to restrict the distribution of this message
		to {eur, na}. Why has anything which gets out of Europe to
		go to four continents?

	4) Chuq, you seem to like facts more than you dislike calculating.
		How much does a netwide article cost (base + per byte)?
		Gene, could that info be included in the net.announce.new-
		users info? Larry, could it be included in Pnews?


I hope I did well in putting all those little remarks in one article...

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							  Biep.
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	Some mazes (especially small ones) have no solutions.
							-- man 6 maze


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