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Article #6Re: A system to discourage rude news postings
From: Haakon Styri
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1992 16:10
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1992 16:10
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This is peculiar. the header reads: _A system to discourage rude news postings_ ...but, what is being discussed are KILL files and the distribution of such. Well, my friends, you may argue that being in a KILL file could be called _discouraging_, but I think it's stretching it too much. To be honest, I think the distribution of a KILL file would have another effect. When a user ends up in too many KILL files, he'll probably just change user ID. Voila, the system will promote free speech. (And generate a _lot_ of flaming, no doubt...) There's another flaw as well - anonymous and forged postings. (Sure, we could "discourage" the anonymous ones.) Guess Bruce just started a futile thread here. --- Haakon Styri Norwegian Telecom Research
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Newsgroups: news.admin Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!sunic!aun.uninett.no!nuug!nntp.nta.no!hal.nta.no!styri From: styri@hal.nta.no (Haakon Styri) Subject: Re: A system to discourage rude news postings Message-ID: <1992Oct27.161022.14478@nntp.nta.no> Sender: styri@hal.nta.no (YuNoHoo) Nntp-Posting-Host: balder.nta.no Reply-To: styri@nta.no Organization: Norwegian Telecom Research References: <1992Oct20.044923.6419@pixar.com> <1992Oct21.012002.11382@philmtl.philips.ca> <1992Oct24.025648.23480@fid.morgan.com> <1992Oct27.031828.6106@philmtl.philips.ca> Date: Tue, 27 Oct 92 16:10:22 GMT Lines: 20