jef@well.sf.ca.us (Jef Poskanzer) (02/13/91)
FYI, I have added the appended text to the alt.hackers monthly informational posting. I have already run this change past postmaster@rutgers, and they continue to deny there is a problem. I have also invited them to post in alt.config about why they felt they could unilaterally subvert the alt.hackers self-moderation experiment. --- Jef - - - - - - - - - - 3) The netnews administrator at Rutgers has set up a mail-to-news gateway that defeats the self-moderation of this group. What's worse, some other netnews admins have set up the Rutgers gateway as the alt.hackers moderation address. The result is that at many sites, you can just post a message to this group without any special tricks, and naturally most of the messages posted this way are trash. I have exchanged email with the Rutgers postmaster about this, and he refuses to change anything, and in fact denies that it's a problem. Therefore I have started cancelling all alt.hackers messages posted through Rutgers. This is not a good solution, but I can't think of any better ones. If you can, please write; or if you want to join in the cancelling, I'll be happy to send you the (trivial!) script.