Futplex wrote: | The fundamental conflict, as I see it, is this: | For security reasons, we want messages to be distributed to a very wide | audience, although those messages are only of interest to a very narrow | audience. News admins understandably are generally inclined to accept | bandwidth only in proportion to readership. For practical reasons, they don't | want to carry messages to people who aren't interested in them. It's not | easy to convince the news admins to do it anyway out of altruism. How about a local group, such as ucb.anonymous? Those news admins who wanted it could get it. Not perfect, but reduced polyticks, increased usablity. Adam -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume