webber@aramis.rutgers.edu (Bob Webber) (07/03/88)
In article <231@pigs.UUCP>, haugj@pigs.UUCP (Joe Bob Willie) writes: > ... > i agree with John_M, if there isn't someone willing to keep the S/N ratio > high, why bother wasting money shipping it around? i think this is alot > like the 100 vote rule, if 100 people aren't willing to participate in a > group, why bother? Actually, there is a simpler way. Don't automatically move any news from one site to another. Instead, only make available to the next site messages that your own readers have read and decided were worth passing on. After all, it is not like things are ``urgent'' or something. And if no one at a site even thought the message was interesting, why should that site propagate it into the net? That way you don't have to tie down a few hundred people to pamper the laziness of tens of thousands. Spread the work around. ---- BOB (webber@athos.rutgers.edu ; rutgers!athos.rutgers.edu!webber)