Re: mail relays

smb@ulysses.att.com
Thu, 25 Oct 90 17:07:17 EDT

>From vortex!lauren@rand.org Thu Oct 25 12:40 PDT 1990
>
>One of my favorite arguments, of course, is that the net has tended
>only to address the traffic *volume* issues, while as a whole not wanting
>to worry about the "quality" issues.

While my earlier message came out of my curiosity about technical
solutions to the volume of traffic, I am also curious about what
kinds of attempts have been made address Lauren's issue -- quality.
I know that this was part of the impetus to the renaming but have
there been other changes over time that tried to address the quality
issue? (Aside from things like kill files etc.)

bj

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There have been two primary ways to deal with quality. First, moderated
groups were created for just that reason. Even with moderators, I'm
sure it comes as no surprise that quality still varies widely, depending
on how good the moderator is.

Second, there has been a return to mailing lists for some news-like traffic.
That also acts as a volume filter, simply because the knowledge of the lists'
existence is limited.

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