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Subject: Re: A Suggested Modification to CCC Operation (was: Sea*

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 16:48:07 08/02/98

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On August 02, 1998 at 14:15:45, Moritz Berger wrote:

>I'm against read-only access (which would be only relevant for people who were
>"asked to leave" because of their previous abusive behaviour).

It would be relevant for those who want to check the place out before going to
the trouble of making an account.

It would also be relevant to those who want to extract information from here,
but know they will never contribute any, not that I would especially like to
encourage that sort of thing.

It is not that big a deal.  Fca got this idea from me, I think, but I'm not
passionate about it.

>The kind of people whom we don't want to keep to chose "Post Message" or "Submit
>Follow Up" here are notorious for (mis)quoting posts from CCC e.g. on r.g.c.c.
>It has happend before and I (speaking for myself) don't like the possibility
>that my posts are presented in a distorted form to people who maybe don't have
>access to CCC and hence neither are in a position to know the whole text of my
>article nor the context in the thread of a discussion.

This will always be a problem, along with a million other ways pepole can mess
with you on the net and elsewhere.

The amazing thing is that this hasn't happened *more* often.

bruce



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