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From: farren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Take a sniff of Gnews
Message-ID: <838@gethen.UUCP>
Date: 29 Mar 88 19:01:09 GMT
References: <1501@looking.UUCP> <34@ncar.ucar.edu> <7928@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: farren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren)
Organization: There's Unix there in Oakland
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weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu (a small gnews-ance) writes:
>
>Ask yourself: what would be the effect of ... "Velikovsky"
>Ask yourself: what would be the effect of ... cross-posting
>Ask yourself: what would be the effect of ... votes in news.groups
>Ask yourself: what would be the effect of ... long .sigs

I believe that the effect would most likely be a rather stiff resistance
to the use of this hypothetical news software.  The problem is, as it
is in all such situations, that the people who know enough to not do
rude and obnoxious things aren't going to be the problem, in main,
but they *WILL* have to deal with those who DON'T know enough, if not
on the Net, then in trying to deal with the folks who will demand to
know why the program won't let them post the latest Right-To-Life news
release to soc.women.  As a sysadmin, I rely on the good sense and
intelligence of the folks who use my system, and reserve the right to
judge them on their actual performance, and not against the perceived
Usenet mean.  I would prefer to be allowed to continue to take that
stand, rather than requiring the news software to act, even in miniature,
as Net.Cop.

-- 
Michael J. Farren             | "INVESTIGATE your point of view, don't just 
{ucbvax, uunet, hoptoad}!     | dogmatize it!  Reflect on it and re-evaluate
        unisoft!gethen!farren | it.  You may want to change your mind someday."
gethen!farren@lll-winken.llnl.gov ----- Tom Reingold, from alt.flame