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From: ron@brl-sem.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: Proposed deletion of Rich Rosen (AND MORE)
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Date: Tue, 26-Nov-85 18:16:23 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 26 18:16:23 1985
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> USENET was created to support the UNIX, basically as a information
> service for gurus and such.   Lets remove all the garbage.  Here is one
> solution I think would be quite effective.  Let each site guru decide
> who on their machine needs or should have access to USENET?  The
> backbone or some group of gurus should then have the power to stop
> servicing sites which abuse their PRIVILEDGES. (Yes, USENET is a
> priviledge, not a right)

The code is in the news code to do that right now.  I only know of
it's use on machines like UNIROT which are open to almost everyone.
Far be it from me to judge one of my users.  We have better ways of
dealing with people who post trash, but I am not going to use this
to block even our biggest posters views.

-Ron