[12224] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: "Arizona Lawyers Form Company..."
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Russell Nelson)
Tue May 10 11:58:15 1994
Date: Mon, 9 May 94 23:30 EDT
From: nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson)
To: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <199405092250.PAA26653@netcom.com> (tenney@netcom.com)
Date: Mon, 9 May 1994 15:51:08 -0800
From: tenney@netcom.com (Glenn S. Tenney)
At 2:36 AM 5/9/94 -0400, Russell Nelson wrote:
>...It's a matter of moments to set up a mail alias that cancels articles
>by message-id. That... will keep your users from any grief. ...
However there are two gotcha's to this. (1) Although it will take moments
to set up such a filter, it will take hours to percolate around the net --
yet the perpetrator can change their identifying marks much faster; and (2)
Well, but what if the auto-canceller has better connectivity than them
(more/faster feeds)? And in any case, we're talking about retroactive
moderation. We could very easily change the news server software so
that articles were merely queued until an approval/disapproval message
arrived. Disapproved messages would be deleted. So, anyone could
subscribe to alt.spam.spam.spam.NOT if they didn't want to be spammed.
more and more nodes on the net do not have the ability to do such things
(ie. not all PC or Mac programs support that).
C&S are a computer virus infecting Usenet. We have viral
anti-infection programs for stand-alone computers. Why not one for
connected computers?
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