Author: Adnan
Date: 23:22:52 03/26/99
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On March 26, 1999 at 23:24:11, Robert Hyatt wrote: >You don't understand 'moderated usenet'. The moderator can, and often does, >simply say 'no more' and he allows no more posts by someone. It happens all >the time, and it is _not_ against any usenet news policy. IE who would want >'Sean the idiot' posting _anywhere_? What does he have to offer? Why does >a moderator have to spend time going thru his garbage? Well, I do understand moderated usenet. In fact, I myself moderate a newsgroup that was created by me called alt.bible.errancy. It is immaterial whether most Sean's postings are garbage. If his posts are abusive and do not match the newsgroup criteria, the postings should get rejected. But you cannot and should not ban a person from a public system like USENET completely. >The internet will eventually disallow anonymous stuff. It is getting very close >with IPV6. And _then_ this problem won't exist any longer, because these >anonymous remailers will be out of business, _finally_. Give it maybe 3 more >years and moderation will be a much easier task... Well, on USENET you do not have to use even anonymous remailers. You can post to USENET without any email account at all. And USENET admins are not going to change this system anytime soon in future.
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