stephen@dcl-cs.UUCP (Stephen J. Muir) (08/20/85)
I keep seeing requests in newsgroups '*wanted*' for sources and things and I would LOVE to send these people what they want, but am prevented from doing so by consideration of the mail cost. How about you NEWS and MAIL gurus out there implementing some kind of reverse-charging system specially for this purpose? Perhaps a newsgroup '*wanted*.followup' which will be reverse charged ONLY if the sender of the corresponding article posted to the '*wanted*' newsgroup has authorised that PARTICULAR sender to send the followup articles. Perhaps have 'mod.wanted*' newsgroups which will collect public domain things which have been requested in a '*wanted*' newsgroup and the moderator will either be reversed charged for mail or put the sources on a publicly accessible machine on, say, the ARPANET. -- UUCP: ...!seismo!mcvax!ukc!dcl-cs!stephen DARPA: stephen%lancs.comp@ucl-cs | Post: University of Lancaster, JANET: stephen@uk.ac.lancs.comp | Department of Computing, Phone: +44 524 65201 Ext. 4599 | Bailrigg, Lancaster, UK. Project:Alvey ECLIPSE Distribution | LA1 4YR