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From: pac@munsell.UUCP (Paul Czarnecki)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Defending Eric Mading
Message-ID: <1377@pinney.munsell.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 16-Nov-87 10:16:59 EST
Article-I.D.: pinney.1377
Posted: Mon Nov 16 10:16:59 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 19-Nov-87 00:50:25 EST
References: <1043@pbhyd.UUCP> <25092COK@PSUVMA> <6851@ut-ngp.UUCP>
Reply-To: pac@pinney.UUCP (Paul Czarnecki)
Organization: Eikonix Corp., Bedford, MA
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In article <6851@ut-ngp.UUCP> kraut@ut-ngp.UUCP (Werner Uhrig) writes:
>Your claim that noone should inform your sysadmin about articles you post
>from the machine for which he has the responsibility is absurd;  he will want
>to know if there are articles posted on his machine which are offending
>people or which damage the reputation of his machine/site/company ....

News 2.11 (and possibly earlier versions) has the ability for the news
administrator to monitor all traffic that originates from his site.
In the sys file put:

nsa:net,world,comp,news,sci,rec,misc,soc,talk,mod,na,ne,usa,to,alt:L:mail usenet

Every article that gets posted from your site will be mailed to the
alias usenet.  It's that easy folks.

As a news administrator I feel personally responsible (not legally
responsible) for all articles that leave this site.  I don't agree
with all of them, and I wouldn't have posted some of them, but I want
all of them to be "good"* articles.  I have never had to cancel an
article and I hope never to do so.

If all news administrators did this, then "Dinette Set for Sale in NJ"
articles would disappear.

I don't see a privacy issue since the articles are in a public forum.
grep would also work but not as well.

(This is My Opinion, not necessarily the opinion of Eikonix or Kodak.)

					pZ
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* good is defined differently for each newsgroup.  your milage may vary.
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