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From: cks@ziebmef.uucp (Chris Siebenmann)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: posting privileges
Keywords: posting, censorship
Message-ID: <1989Mar18.233510.17531@ziebmef.uucp>
Date: 19 Mar 89 04:35:09 GMT
References: <7502@pyr.gatech.EDU> <1989Mar9.160858.28018@utzoo.uucp> <3762@geaclib.UUCP>
Reply-To: cks@ziebmef.UUCP (Chris Siebenmann)
Organization: Ziebmef Public Access Unix, Toronto, Ontario
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In article <3762@geaclib.UUCP> rae@geac.uucp (Reid Ellis) writes:
| If this ultimate censorship bothers people [as it does me] perhaps
| a more moderate form of censorship might fit the bill -- namely
| scanning all outgoing news.  But then you have to consider the
| effort involved. 

 The effort involved hinges on a very interesting question: what
percentage of newsreaders posts articles (or "what's the articles to
newsreaders ratio")? Judging from local experience, I suspect that
under a twentieth of newsreaders ever post articles, and probably way
less than that. Does anyone have some real numbers, though (perhaps
Brian Reid -- unfortunately, we don't have the latest arbitron stats
on hand)? 

-- 
	"Though you may disappear, you're not forgotten here
	 And I will say to you, I will do what I can do"
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