[141] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
use guidelines
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gumby Vinayak Wallace)
Tue Nov 13 01:39:01 1990
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 90 14:56:31 PST
From: cygint!gumby@labrea.stanford.edu (Gumby Vinayak Wallace)
To: craig@nnsc.nsf.net
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <9011121307.AA19916@psi.com> (message from Craig Partridge on Mon, 12 Nov 90 09:09:35 -0500)
From: Craig Partridge <craig@NNSC.NSF.NET>
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 90 09:09:35 -0500
I've argued for some time that instead of network-wide use guidelines,
we have mailing list guidelines.
I think this will be hard to enforce just as "guidelines." What I
imagine will ultimately happen is that we will end up subscribing to
moderated lists almost exclusively (and probably paying for the
editing, a la Geoff's efforts). And the market will shake things out
as it does in print publishing-- if some moderator is too slow there
may be an intermediate step (as with Physics Today Letters). People
who want to deal with it all can (attempt to) read what will be
essentially usenet.
I don't think a special rule is required or would work.
On the other hand what I do fear from a larger network is more
unsolicited junk mail. I don't see a good way to stop that. Doing
what Congress is doing for hardcopy junk mail will definately NOT
work for netmail.
