From: Rich Graves <rich@c2.org>
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 19:21:17 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: [RANT] Death of Usenet: Film at 11
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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