On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 02:57:37PM -0700, James Newtons Massmind wrote:
> Do please understand that I am not asking for moderation of ALL posts. Only
> of newbie's (and only for a while) and of... Well... Olin, specifically.
> Your posts would go right through.
> 
> I DON'T want to burden MIT with the bandwidth for an UNMOD channel.

Ah. So you did hear the request. Good. I'm still looking for the
answers to the technical questions:

1) If such a channel were set up would messages be filtered at the
server?

2) If (1) is true then can everyone account be setup to be unsubscribed
to that channel?

If both of these conditions are not achievable then it's probably
not worth the effort. OTOH if it can be done then it represents another
potential solution to the problem.

And I don't think personally that there is a bandwidth issue. We
already have a bunch of OT stuff as it is. UNMOD would simply be
a second hidden OT channel that would in fact take up some of the
bandwidth that OT is using already. All the interesting tidbits
that we see now that really have nothing to do with PICs or electronics
or anything even marginally related would now travel into UNMOD.
Think of it as splitting OT into PIC related OT and unmoderated OT.
Same bandwidth, or actually less since less people will be subscribed
to UNMOD. It'll serve as a relief valve for controversy, and will obviate
the need for the personal moderators.

Can anyone tell me about the technical potential first? Please?

BAJ
[Snipped the rest. Save the bandwidth.]
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