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From: kus3@sphinx.uchicago.edu (Bob Kusumoto)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: The death of USENET
Message-ID: <4386@sphinx.uchicago.edu>
Date: 15 Jun 88 21:18:36 GMT
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In article <3190@s.cc.purdue.edu> rsk@s.cc.purdue.edu (Rich Kulawiec) writes:
>I have been advocating this position for several years, and am very
>glad to find at least one other person who feels that 100% moderation
>would achieve the two goals of traffic reduction and quality increase.
>Roughly speaking, 60 of the 310 newsgroups are now moderated; moderating
>the remaining 250 or so would not be easy, but it's an idea deserving
>of serious consideration.

A great idea, for USENET, but what about mail, the orginal problem that AT&T
was going to change in the first place? You can't moderate mail can you? And
if you did, how? read mail for junk? I don't particular like the idea of other
people reading my mail.

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