[13555] in Cypherpunks
Re: Cypherpunks Goals: Bad debate drives out good debate
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ed Carp)
Thu May 12 12:54:09 1994
Date: Thu, 12 May 1994 09:46:49 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ed Carp <ecarp@netcom.com>
Reply-To: Ed Carp <ecarp@netcom.com>
To: Peter Hendrickson <ph@netcom.com>
Cc: upham@cs.ubc.ca, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199405121611.JAA10782@netcom.com>
How about auto-moderation? I came up with this idea a while back for
automatically moderating mailing lists. Here's how it works:
A newsgroup is set up as moderated, and the posts are emailed to the
moderator (as usual). The "moderator" is a mail-to-news gateway that
posts the articles if the author isn't on the disapproved list, and
also automatically cancels articles that don't have the right "approved"
header and aren't digitally signed by the moderator.
If a person becomes a nuisance, people send their votes in to the
moderator-robot, and it tallies the votes. If within XXX days more thumbs
down votes are received than thumbs up votes, the person is placed on the
disapproved list.
The main advantage is, it's fast and easy to set up. Comments?
Ed Carp, N7EKG/VE3 ecarp@netcom.com 519/824-3307
Finger ecarp@netcom.com for PGP 2.3a public key an88744@anon.penet.fi
If you want magic, let go of your armor. Magic is so much stronger than
steel! -- Richard Bach, "The Bridge Across Forever"
