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- From: johnm@cory.Berkeley.EDU (John D. Mitchell)
- Subject: Re: sci.crypt.research
- Message-ID: <1992Dec27.080857.7556@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
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- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 08:08:57 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec27.043202.29306@ncar.ucar.edu> prz@sage.cgd.ucar.edu (Philip Zimmermann) writes:
- >Starting sci.crypt.research sounds good to me.
-
- I'd vote for this too.
-
- >Is there some way to run an unmoderated newgroup with some kind of special
- >software to limit the number of postings to one per day from each person?
- >Think what that would do to the flame wars. There could still be political
- >discourse, but rationed postings would make people choose the words (and
- >their battles) carefully. We wouldn't get 20 postings a day from the same
- >person.
-
- I don't think so. The only way would be for someone to 'moderate' it and
- put a filter on the group. Something along these lines would be great but
- I'm not sure if it would be necessary on a 'research' group. The big wars
- going on are mostly just the result of crap that has little to do with the
- technology/theory/etc. of cryptology and much more to do with government,
- law, etc. (which would probably continue on sci.crypt but which we could
- easily ignore :-).
-
- Thanks,
- John
- johnm@cory.Berkeley.EDU
-
- Standard disclaimers apply.
-