On Tue, 20 Aug 1996, Tom Breton wrote:
* If rejected messages were indicated by simply missing a signature of approval, voluntary not searched for by individual readers, it would be harder to claim moderator censorship. Or to accomplish it, for that matter.
* Multiple independent moderators could work on the same newsgroup.
* If the stamp of approval were dissociated from the message proper, messages could propagate without waiting for the moderator's receive-email-and-post cycle. The moderator's "OK" would catch up later, for those readers that wait for it.
Innaresting. Sort of a reverse NoCeM. I like it, but of course you'd have to distribute the clients by magic. Sounds good for discussion groups, especially soc.culture.* and soc.religion.*, but there's still a role for strictly moderated *.announce groups. -rich