mesard@bbn.com (Wayne Mesard) (02/10/90)
gcrum@aludra.usc.edu (Gary Crum) writes: >Here's my proposal: Make comp.sys.sun unmoderated, and if there is a >volunteer to do filtering, have a moderated group also. The content >of the moderated group could be the "best of" the unmoderated group. Reposting best-of articles from another group is a serious waste of bandwidth. Over in alt.sources, we solved this problem with alt.sources.index. The moderator periodically posts articles containing the message-ids and subjects of each alt.sources article worth reading. I don't know if anyone's written a program to parse these articles and adjust a user's .newsrc file accordingly, but a simple shell script should do the trick. Everyone's happy: no delays associated with moderation, no censorship [sic], minimal bandwidth increase and those who want moderation still have it. Of course, the _right_ solution would be to allow post-hoc crossposting of articles. I.e., I send a control message out which will link an article into a newsgroup that the original poster didn't include in the Newsgroups line. [There are other reasons why this would be a cool thing to do, and IMHO future versions of the news software should support it.] Wayne();