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1997-07-31 - Re: non-censorous spam control (was Re: Spam is Information?)

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From: ? the Platypus {aka David Formosa} <dformosa@st.nepean.uws.edu.au>
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Message ID: <Pine.LNX.3.93.970731185306.693C-100000@shirley>
Reply To: <199707311120.MAA00669@server.test.net>
UTC Datetime: 1997-07-31 13:05:49 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 06:05:49 -0700 (PDT)

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From: ? the Platypus {aka David Formosa} <dformosa@st.nepean.uws.edu.au>
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 06:05:49 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: non-censorous spam control (was Re: Spam is Information?)
In-Reply-To: <199707311120.MAA00669@server.test.net>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.93.970731185306.693C-100000@shirley>
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On Thu, 31 Jul 1997, Adam Back wrote:

> A good post.  Your notice-board analogy was reasonable.

[...]

> 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

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