ietf-nntp The future of NNTP

[Charles Lindsey]

In <387E2405.8E2A610D at wxs.nl> Henk Stokhorst <Tha at wxs.nl> writes:

>The semicolon would indicate that you read the newsgroup, but messages
>are moderated by the editor. One could also read the newsgroup
>unmoderated. The moderation is only a scheme on the newsgroup defining
>which messages not to show. Like there can be more than one subgroup,
>there can also be more than one moderationschemes, there
>would be room for rec.hobbyfarming.dairy:moderatedbysomeoneelse. It
>would only be another scheme on the same newsgroup. Moderationschemes
>take up only little memory and other resources.

Well this is nothing to do with NNTP.

However, it is interesting to note that such a scheme already exists. It
is known as "NOCEM" (which stands for "No See 'Em"). See www.cm.org for
details. There is no reason why a particular group should not set up one
or more "watchers" (please avoid using the word "moderators" which already
has a well defined meaning) to generate NOCEM notices for the group.

But again, this is not the proper list to discuss such a thing.

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