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From: pardoej@lonnds.ml.com (Julian Pardoe LADS LDN X1428)
Subject: Re: ******** STOP IT******** Re: ALERT TO ALL PARENTS!
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Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 11:13:39 GMT
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In article <4qcbqf$qn6@nadine.teleport.com>, nenslo@teleport.com (NENSLO) writes:
-->Jacques Guy (j.guy@trl.telstra.com.au) wrote:
-->: Yes, YOU, YOU there, JERKSVILLE denizens, STOP following this up all over
-->: the Net.
-->: And those who complain that I am breaching Netiquette, CAN IT.
-->: I have been privately e-mailing those arseholes what I am 
-->: publicly posting now. Only to receive abuse in my mail box.
-->
-->	I see and hear a lot of things like this and I am getting pretty 
-->sick of it myself.  I think we need to have firmer controls on who can 
-->post things and what they can post, especially crossposting or following 
-->up to a widely crossposted thread.  
-->	This foolishness must be brought to a halt before it goes too far.
-->	Can anyone remove this thread, or even some of the groups to 
-->which it is crossposted?  Thank you.

Here am I doing what I hate and cross-posting wildly, but I too feel
that something needs to be done.  Talk of ``firmer controls on who can 
post things and what they can post'' smacks of censorship and isn't
really practical.  No solution that requires intelligence or the
exercise of discretion is either workable or desirable.

What might work is something crude, such as news gateways dropping any
articles posted to more than <n> groups (say 5 or 8).

This simple tactic would I'm have a welcome effect on the amount of cross-
posted rubbish that one finds everywhere.  I can't remember when I last saw
an article about language, save the thread on "two-dimensional writing", on
sci.lang.

-- jP --


