On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 07:55:16AM +0000, THUFIR HAWAT wrote: > this is absolutely the crux of the issue; the quantity of this list itself > is spam. There's a *lot* of signal here, and there's very little *actual* spam. On an open usenet group, *actual* spam is inevitable. > 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. That's merely an example. Another could be "post with your real name". > 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. Oh, I'm *all for* using nntp. (See my earlier message.) I just think it'd be better on a private server, with a nice web interface for those who want it. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> --> Fedora Users & Developers Conference, hosted by Boston University <-- February 18th, 2005 <http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon1>
