Why not a private news server?

[Squash]

A onelist list should be an interim solution.  A NG
can be very secure if you don't have a stupid
enrollment policy.

NGs are soo nice to use!

The bandwidth requirements are much less on the NG
server idea, too.

Squash

--- Eric Clark <eclark at hoser.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, David Cooley wrote:
> 
> > I'm on several "private" news servers and they get
> as much spam as the 
> > alt.* groups... every 2nd or 3rd post is spam.
> > Onelist does not spam.  Look up the definition of
> spam.
> 
> uhm, every message has advertising of things that
> I'm not the least bit
> interested in.
> 
> > >As it is right now spammers would have no problem
> getting on the list, but
> > >we dont really have a problem with it, do we?
> 
> > Actually they do... The list requires a VALID
> email address that can be 
> > verified before the subscriber can post.  News
> servers, Public and private 
> > do not.
> 
> Thats not at all true.
> news servers can require each user to have a unique
> username and password.
> 
> > Wondering if you have a financial interest in the
> private news server????
> 
> I'm wondering if you work for onelist
> 
> -Eric
> 
> 

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