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From: brad@gcc-milo.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.news.adm
Subject: Re: Re: Junker
Message-ID: <610@gcc-milo.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 25-Jun-86 14:03:34 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 25 14:03:34 1986
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> 
>      I realize how strange the junker solution looks at first glance.
> But if you look at it more closely, follow how junked articles would move
> through the net, and predict the general effect it has on newsgroup
> communities once it's accepted as part of the news system -- I think you'll
> see that it can work, if we give it a chance.  And it *has* been implemented.
> 
Jamie - I think (in my humble opinion) that you're being a bit naive about
people accepting this as "part of the news system". It's just that no one
has had this "effect" (or aboration) trash their article yet.

I also think that putting caps on the size of postings based on the news
group might be more a more usefull concept (i.e. mod.sources would be
unlimited, but net.movies would be limited to one page - idealy capped
at the time of posting)

Well, in the end, it will be interesting to see what happens with this.
I've always tried to keep fascism to a minimum when dealing with
news, and hoped that others would too. This seems to be a step in
the wrong direction.

Flames to Dr. Ruth.
-- 

J Bradford Parker
General Computer (HyperDrive Beach, 3rd Cabana)
harvard!gcc-milo!brad

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