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From: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Only usenet@site post here?
Message-ID: <2557@epimass.EPI.COM>
Date: 14 Oct 88 17:08:34 GMT
References: <6798@ig.ig.com> <312@fsc2086.UUCP> <10639@netsys.COM> <1114@fig.bbn.com> <10643@netsys.COM>
Reply-To: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck)
Organization: Entropic Processing, Inc., Cupertino, CA
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In article <10643@netsys.COM> len@netsys.COM (Len Rose) writes:
>I didn't say "root" or "usenet", I said news adminstrator. Having the software
>check for a uid would be sufficient. It's in the source,luke.

Let's only propose changes we can implement.  Do you really think
you're going to get thousands of news administrators to patch their
code to make this change?  Lotsa luck; we still have people running
2.9 news out there.

On the other hand, all that it takes to make news.admin moderated is
to send out a control message.  This is doable, though it's debatable
whether we can do it.  But changes in policy that require every admin
to change his or her software are hopeless.



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