Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.UUCP> (07/31/83)
I would much rather see the technique of "peer pressure" being effectively used to deal with such problems, rather than introduce the many hassles of charging, collecting, and distributing money for such offenses. The problems of how to deal with people who refused to pay, who claim that their messages actually were not violations, or similar circumstances are also pretty serious. Of course, the worst problem is that such techniques encourage the people with the money to just go ahead and do what they want regardless of any "fines". Let's try to keep explicit monetary exchanges out of Usenet, please? We have other "methods" at our disposal. --Lauren--