price@wlcrjs.UUCP (Douglas H. Price) (12/12/84)
I am currently the netnews administrator of two sites, one of them being this machine. Wlcrjs is a Public Access UN*X machine, meaning anyone can obtain a login, and access to netnews, for the cost of the phone call. Recently, we have seen quite a large amount of discussion concerning problems with Public Access Bulletin Board systems, and the legal (as well as ethical) difficulties of managing such a system. This machine is not the only public access site on the net. I therefore propose the creation of a new newsgroup net.news.public, to act as a forum for anyone concerned with the ownership, responsibility and managment of Public Access Netnews sites, and incidentally any issues concerning Public Access computing facilities as well. If discussion does not last, we can, of course, remove this newsgroup in the future. Discussion? -- Douglas H. Price chi-net Chicago IL ..!ihnp4!wlcrjs!price
david@wlcrjs.UUCP (David Watson) (12/14/84)
In article <476@wlcrjs.UUCP> price@wlcrjs.UUCP (Douglas H. Price) writes: > >I propose the creation of a new newsgroup net.news.public, to act >as a forum for anyone concerned with the ownership, responsibility and >managment of Public Access Netnews sites, and any issues concerning >Public Access computing facilities as well. If discussion does not last, >we can, of course, remove this newsgroup in the future. > >Discussion? > Well, I plan to establish an open-access Site in Boston, and a net.news.public group seems like a useful and timely proposition if there are many others who share the same crazy idea. One interesting issue raised by the introduction of public-access Sites can be kicked around in net.news.public, and it goes something like this: "Suppose that, despite net.announce.newusers and other precautions, the new public-access sites generate a significant number of postings which ignore netiquette and distract ongoing discussions with naive or abusive messages. What (if anything) do we do about it, and how do we feel about opening the net to that possibility in the first place?" There are many ethical, technical, and psychological ramifications to this, not the least of which is the spectre of elitism. My opinion is that there will be lots of netnews problems associated with the introduction of large numbers of Unix micros into the marketplace over the next couple of years. Anyway, "net.news.public" seems like a great place to hash that kind of thing around, so I support the creation of this new group. -- -David M. Watson (Mail: ...ihnp4!harvard!lhasa!watson)
miller@nlm-mcs.ARPA (Nancy Miller) (12/20/84)
The new group sounds good to me, but I think it should be called net.public
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