Re: A system to discourage rude news postings

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From: Seth Breidbart
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1992 00:59

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In article <1992Oct29.043153.5458@philmtl.philips.ca>
ray@philmtl.philips.ca (Ray Dunn) writes:
>In refd article, sethb@fid.morgan.com (Seth Breidbart) writes:
>>Why?  Tell me, specifically, how such a newsgroup really differs from
>>(say) alt.usenet.article-reviews.
>
>The proposal is not to create a newsgroup, that was a side proposal which
>you and some others have taken up, even though you say (correctly) that it
>would at best, get laughed out of existence.
>
>The proposer wants "to distribute a killfile", and requested ideas on how
>its contents could be agreed.

Well, distributing information over the net is generally done via
posting to a newsgroup.  Mailing lists, ftp, etc. are also used, but
they probably wouldn't meet the original poster's goal of being easily
available to everybody.

Seth		sethb@fid.morgan.com

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From: sethb@fid.morgan.com (Seth Breidbart)
Subject: Re: A system to discourage rude news postings
Message-ID: <1992Nov3.005937.10301@fid.morgan.com>
Organization: my opinions only
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