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From: gsmith@garnet.berkeley.edu (Gene W. Smith)
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Subject: Re: Do you restrict your users?
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Date: 12 Feb 90 05:24:27 GMT
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In-reply-to: LRL@psuvm.psu.edu (Linda Littleton)

In article <90042.134648LRL@PSUVM.BITNET>, LRL@psuvm (Linda Littleton) writes:

>We run Netnews at a large (20,000 user) VM/CMS installation.  We get a
>full feed and give read and post access to all users.  With that many
>people involved, we've had some unfortunate situations where our users
>have posted inappropriate and/or offensive things.

  One possibility would be to restrict undergraduates to a
smaller distribution. Most of what undergraduates have to say is
of no interest to anyone anywhere anyway. The fact that so many
of them post from Penn State is making the site notorious.
--
ucbvax!garnet!gsmith          Gene Ward Smith/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720
"I am quite prepared to prove in court that I am neither stupid nor insane."
quoted from ONE FOR THE BOOKS, the authorized biography of Captain Carnage.