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From: mwm@ucbopal.berkeley.edu (Mike (I'll be mellow when I'm dead) Meyer)
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Subject: Re: Statistics, polls: honest, no flames
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Date: Tue, 1-Apr-86 00:55:51 EST
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In article <3417@sun.uucp> chuq@sun.uucp (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
>Well, I'd guess offhand just about anyone in a non-technical
>group on the seismo top 25. Contrary to the snide insinuation, that ain't
>me, since I've been on the top 25 once in the last six months.
>
>On a practical level, getting rid of individual users is an administrative
>impossibility for the net -- the only control at the user level is in the
>hands of the SA. Getting rid of bloated newsgroups IS under net control, and
>worth looking at.

Ok, I can't resist. We went over this problem at lunch today (random chance,
that), and came up with the following two-step solution:

1) a hack to inews so that it refuses to accept articles posted by anyone on
	a list of user@site type names.

2) An awk script (or something similar) that takes the top 25 list, and
	turns it into a list for step one. Criteria should include
	newsgroups posted to and # of s.d. away from average.

If the backbone started running this code (or something like it), we would
have instant, objective deletion of high-volume users on a netwide level,
but only for a couple of weeks. And maybe, just maybe, the thought of being
censored that way would make people think before posting.

	<mike