biep@klipper.UUCP (J. A. "Biep" Durieux) (09/18/85)
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Why not give Pnews/postnews/whatever other program a password, and
publish that in net.announce.newusers. Then those who haven't read
that don't know the password. Pnews/etc. will tell where they can
find the password. If necessary it might be changed (by a control
message), so that all old timers are forced to reread the stuff.
(I myself don't like that, by the way).
The promised other remarks:
1) There is a limited capacity for newstransmission, or so it seems.
people, especially libertarians and other net people hate
anything which doesn't look like free market/anarchy. So:
bandwith has to be sold. Every user gets, say, 100 centi-
votes, which he may spread according to his liking over
the rest of the net community. Anybody may post according
to the number of votes he gets. Implementation details will
be skipped due to probable impossibility, but stuff in
mod.control might be useful. At least, non-read ramblings
will be reduced.
2) net.announce.newusers is lacking a "historical guide to USENET".
USENET is a network which exists by grace of its history.
if Gene and Chuq and Mark and Larry and Rich (random order)
weren't known by the masses, if one hasn't followed the
discussions of why it may be catastrophal to post articles
like this, which clutter up net space, if one hasn't read
about Lauren, his stargate project, and the net.fascism
discussions, one cannot be expected to stay within the
net traditions. The historical facts, problems, delicate
points etc. have to be explained.
3) I would have liked to restrict the distribution of this message
to {eur, na}. Why has anything which gets out of Europe to
go to four continents?
4) Chuq, you seem to like facts more than you dislike calculating.
How much does a netwide article cost (base + per byte)?
Gene, could that info be included in the net.announce.new-
users info? Larry, could it be included in Pnews?
I hope I did well in putting all those little remarks in one article...
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