oops, can i retract my tone, please?
a private news server is fine :)
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Thufir Hawat
----- Original Message -----
From: "THUFIR HAWAT" <thufir.hawat@xxxxxxxx>
To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Solution Coming Re: Fedora Community: Under threat?
Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2005 07:55:16 +0000
>
> this is absolutely the crux of the issue; the quantity of this list
> itself is spam.
>
> you haven't established that enforcement of the "be nice" policy is
> required, though. there're plenty of technical news groups which are
> alive and well; their existence serves as a counter example that "be
> nice" has to be enforcable.
>
> ok, let's work from the premise that the "be nice" policy (good
> choice of words) has to be enforcable. is enforcement compatible
> with nntp, or, can it be made compatible? even if they're they're
> incompatible, to not use nntp is to throw the baby out with the
> bathwater.
>
> what are the goals here? minimize spam, maximize community
> involvement (quantity and quality of the material) *and* good
> archiving, so that questions don't repeatedly come up.
>
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> Thufir Hawat
>
>
> //////////////cut and paste from archive////////////////////
> Re: Solution Coming Re: Fedora Community: Under threat?,
>
> * From: Matthew Miller <mattdm mattdm org>
> * To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list redhat com>
> * Subject: Re: Solution Coming Re: Fedora Community: Under threat?,
> * Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 18:49:04 -0500
> [..]
> In order to keep spam down, and to institute unique policies ("be nice",
> say), it's probably best to have a private news server rather than public
> newsgroups.
>
>
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