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Re: Should RTL be hosted on this server?
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Date: 
Mon, 30 Nov 1998 03:57:59 GMT
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Todd Lehman wrote:

Ed Boxer writes:

I think the largest problem would be:  Moderation!!!

Will you moderate RTL on Lugnet as you moderate Lugnet?  What effect would that
have on people who read RTL via their Newsgroup reader?

Will you block spam on RTL from being viewed on Lugnet, or will it be a total
immersion?  I like Lugnet as it is organized.  I do not see an advantage, other
than not having to access a newsgroup reader, in pulling in RTL, with all its
spam, OT posts, etc.

In a word - Nope!!!

I think it would be best -- if RTL were offered -- to offer it in its
entirety unchanged.  There seem to be quite a few HTML postings there (like
maybe 5 a week or more) and I don't think it's possible to educate Usenet
newbies about netiquette/HTML/binaries as easily as it is here with the
signup system in place.  On the other hand, perhaps binaries could be
filtered but HTML posts left in place.  Certainly, if RTL were offered here,
it would work to filter out incoming messages based on poster -- although
outgoing messages could be.

This is why I would say don't include RTL, you start to get into issues
like this.
Besides, if you have to filter messages by non approved posters, what's
the point
of carrying RTL any ways.  Anyone who is approved will probably already
be here.  It's
not like someone is going to get approved just so they can send a
message in
through RTL.


--
Paul Foster
http://reality.sgi.com/foster_stco/lego.html



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  Re: Should RTL be hosted on this server?
 
1st of all, I just select "tools, download all," so having to go to two different servers is not really noticeable. OE seems to handle it ok. The only benefits I could see might be receiving some posts sooner rather than later, and not needing to (...) (26 years ago, 30-Nov-98, to lugnet.general)

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(...) I think it would be best -- if RTL were offered -- to offer it in its entirety unchanged. There seem to be quite a few HTML postings there (like maybe 5 a week or more) and I don't think it's possible to educate Usenet newbies about (...) (26 years ago, 29-Nov-98, to lugnet.general)

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