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Re: [RANT] Death of Usenet: Film at 11



Rich Graves <[email protected]> writes:
> > * If rejected messages were indicated by simply missing a signature of
> > approval, voluntary not searched for by individual readers, it would be
> > harder to claim moderator censorship. Or to accomplish it, for that
> > matter.
> >
> > * Multiple independent moderators could work on the same newsgroup.
> >
> > * If the stamp of approval were dissociated from the message proper,
> > messages could propagate without waiting for the moderator's
> > receive-email-and-post cycle. The moderator's "OK" would catch up later,
> > for those readers that wait for it.
>
> Innaresting. Sort of a reverse NoCeM. I like it, but of course you'd have to
> distribute the clients by magic.

Why 'reverse'? NoCeM's can be used to both 'hide' and 'highlight' articles.

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<a href="mailto:[email protected]">Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM</a>
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