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From: sl@van-bc.UUCP (pri=-10 Stuart Lynne)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Protection Against Abuse of Messages
Message-ID: <2217@van-bc.UUCP>
Date: 9 Feb 89 21:57:33 GMT
References: <2726@looking.UUCP> <7651@chinet.chi.il.us> <2213@van-bc.UUCP> <7665@chinet.chi.il.us>
Reply-To: sl@van-bc.UUCP (pri=-10 Stuart Lynne)
Organization: Wimsey Associates, Vancouver, BC.
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In article <7665@chinet.chi.il.us> patrick@chinet.chi.il.us (Patrick A. Townson) writes:
>In article <2213@van-bc.UUCP> sl@van-bc.UUCP (pri=-10 Stuart Lynne) writes:

>Where the problem would come up is with things like unmoderated groups and
>messages of any kind where backbones or sysadmins (involved with news at
>their site) are concerned.

Of course this also leads to another question - would it be such a bad thing
if (for example) Compuserve gatewayed comp.all into a new sig? (I'll
volunteer to be the sig moderator :-)

I seem to remember the last time I was reading mac related stuff that
someone was gatewaying stuff into and out of either Delphi or Genie.

If it is a bad thing, why? Other than perhaps increasing the volume (oh my
god the end of the net is near), why is the fact that they charge for access
make a large difference. Portal charges, many small sites charge something
to help pay phone bills etc. Of course Compuserve does make a profit, but
does that really mean that their customers shouldn't have access to UseNet
materials?

It might be interesting to follow up on patrick's suggestion. Have it done
via Usenix or UUNET. They could then act as the organizer for the UseNet sig
on Compuservce. Remember that the Compuserve actually pays a percentage to
the organizer of the group. This could be used to subsidize UUNET's
operations and lower the access costs for people on this side.

Along the same lines, I've thought for a while it would be interesting to
publish a monthly (bi-weekly?) newspaper containing the "Best of UseNet!".
Cull the flames etc out, print related articles together, sell some
advertising and propagate by paid subscriptions.


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Stuart.Lynne@wimsey.bc.ca {ubc-cs,uunet}!van-bc!sl     Vancouver,BC,604-937-7532