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From: sechrest@mist.cs.orst.edu (John Sechrest)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Some thoughts about censorship (can it be done selectively?)
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Date: Tue, 17-Nov-87 15:53:58 EST
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It occurs to me that a good way to provide for "limited censorship"
is instead of barring people from a newsgroup, simply put a "rating"
on the person's notes (in that newsgroup). 

You could let each person (as a part of news) vote on each article with
different types of Kill commands. The news software could track this and
put a rating on the postings of that person based on the number of people
who read the whole thing vs the number of people who Kill it or mark
it offensive. 

You could then set up a filter that would only show you notes of rating
N or less. This allows those people to post all they want, and those that 
are offended to never even see them after a while.


					john Sechrest
					sechrest@cs.orst.edu