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From: merlin@hqda-ai.UUCP (David S. Hayes)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Newsgroup vote counting: a proposed modifacation
Message-ID: <533@hqda-ai.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 11-Nov-87 13:36:13 EST
Article-I.D.: hqda-ai.533
Posted: Wed Nov 11 13:36:13 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 14-Nov-87 00:55:34 EST
References: <4965@oberon.USC.EDU> <6695@ut-ngp.UUCP> <1578@haddock.ISC.COM> <751@sdcc8.ucsd.EDU>
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Summary: Users should be *required* to learn how to mail in order to vote for new groups.

In article <751@sdcc8.ucsd.EDU>, py21@sdcc8.ucsd.EDU (akkana) writes:
>             And why should users have to learn about their mail
> system before being allowed to vote?  Personally, I find the mail
> system interesting, but there are a lot of people who might be
> interested in voting for a new group but don't have the time/interest
> to understand their local mail system.

     Usenet is normally free to newsreaders.  (No flames, please.
I know many sites have monster phone bills.  I said it was free to
*readers*.)  It is not unreasonable to place the very minimal
requirement of good net manners on users.  

     Our Usenet works because we all cooperate (to some degree).
If "Chris Netreader" wants to be a full participant, then they'll
have to learn to live with the system as it is.  If they can't be
bothered to learn how to send mail, or even ask someone else, then
I'm not particularly interested in whether they want to consume my
disk space and modem bandwidth for their group.

-- 
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