-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Thu, 31 Jul 1997, Adam Back wrote:
A good post. Your notice-board analogy was reasonable.
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That is cancel all but one groups worth of articles, and then modify the Newsgroups line to cross-post to all the groups the article was originally posted to.
No that is worce, it would be forgery of the orginal post. In addtion it would violate the usenet requirement to avoid modifing the post. [...]
One interesting idea which has been floated on this list in the past is for authors to have their free posting rate moderated by other peoples ratings of their posts.
No this would mean unpopular (but often neccery) peaple would be forced off usenet. Please excuse my spelling as I suffer from agraphia see the url in my header. Never trust a country with more peaple then sheep. ex-net.scum and proud You Say To People "Throw Off Your Chains" And They Make New Chains For Themselves? --Terry Pratchett -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBM+BT/qQK0ynCmdStAQGREAQA0JdVS7fUyLdhF1iTFQ5xaWYzoCBBoMgY 2MjYjC1BNvOt0Ju5r7S/J96RhGHDgqSV7whYLzxNy2a0dqYViGfnO/5JsPxbPRre SmISeEEkdL8nsgWu95FJklU/d3Npz1FhdS1ACed1QMKufZjx+t+dfzWXtDTsINtB lSuzo2tJikI= =M0p6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----