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From: mgresham@artsnet.UUCP (Mark Gresham)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin,news.groups
Subject: Re: USENET and moderators exposure (to lots of things)
Message-ID: <208@artsnet.UUCP>
Date: 28 Mar 89 00:19:16 GMT
References: <37743@bbn.COM> <27809@apple.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: mgresham@artsnet.UUCP (Mark Gresham)
Organization: ARTSNET  Atlanta, GA  USA
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In article <27809@apple.Apple.COM> chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
>A rule with no enforcement mechanism is no rule. And USENET has never had an
>enforcement mechanism. Unless you can figure out how to create one, I'd stop
>wasting my time building rules that mean nothing.
>
There only seems to be one:
If you don't like it, don't subscribe; if you don't want it
passing through your machine, don't subscribe.
"Just Say No", as the grocery sacks proclaim.
If someone downstream really wants a group, *some* kind of feed is
likely, even if at a higher cost than the most convenient feed.

At this time, I don't carry *most* newsgroups, period;
as of this writing, I'm only a small leaf with a few
"hitchhikers".

  (Net Dictionay and History scribes: I want credit for the term:
hitchhiker (n.) a user whose computer utilizes an OS other than
Unix or a similar system, and taps into Usenet as a remote
terminal only with it.)

Thank-you for your support!

Cheers,

--Mark

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