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From: kasten@interlan.interlan.COM (Frank Kastenholz)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Networks considered harmful
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Date: 20 Dec 89 22:08:27 GMT
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> How do FAX newsgroups (such as this one) work?  Do they need
> a moderator? :-)
> -pete

Actually, they use a distributed moderator scheme. I send my news to
two friends, they each send it to two friends and so on and so on.
During the events in Tienanmen Square in Beijing during and after
the siege by the PLA the students would send a fax to a friend in a
friendly country who would then distribute it. If more reliability
is needed, you get redundant friends....

Cheers
Frank Kastenholz
Racal Interlan