Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site cmu-cs-cad.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxb!mhuxn!mhuxm!mhuxj!houxm!vax135!petsd!pesnta!hplabs!hao!seismo!rochester!cmu-cs-pt!cmu-cs-cad!mjc From: mjc@cmu-cs-cad.ARPA (Monica Cellio) Newsgroups: net.followup,net.jobs,net.news Subject: Re: Headhunters in net.jobs Message-ID: <292@cmu-cs-cad.ARPA> Date: Sun, 10-Feb-85 14:56:20 EST Article-I.D.: cmu-cs-c.292 Posted: Sun Feb 10 14:56:20 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 12-Feb-85 05:44:35 EST Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI Lines: 26 Xref: watmath net.followup:4451 net.jobs:1007 net.news:3131 From: nsc!amdahl!gam@seismo (gam) >It is very simple, really. If "The Solution" becomes a conduit for >advertising to Usenet, I will no longer allow their articles to pass >thru here. This applies to any other site wishing to post advertisements >(as opposed to press announcements or individuals' commercial >transactions). I'm not a news administrator (i.e. I don't know the news software). Is it possible with the current software (define that however you like; I'm thinking of 2.10 and 2.10.2) to pass on news without dumping it on your own machine? That would allow site administrators to pass on stuff they personally object to (so it still propegates through the rest of the net) while not taking up their own disk space or keeping something around they object to. I'd hate to stop getting a group because someone three links back cut it off in his own disgust (yes, I know: "Go find another feed..."). I mean, I can see people deciding that there's too much dreck in net.sources and cutting it off completely.... To help avert flames: I am *not* suggesting that someone go and write code to do this (I'm not trying to burden the folks who run this net). I *am* asking if the current software allows individual sites to discriminate in this way. -Dragon -- UUCP: ...ucbvax!dual!lll-crg!dragon ARPA: monica.cellio@cmu-cs-cad or dragon@lll-crg