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   Lost characters perhaps.   
      
   If anyone attempts to "rescue" you IRL after finding you   
   talking to yourself, just tell them not to worry.  It's just   
   the only way you can have an intelligent conversation.  :-)   
   Keep a straw man or seven around while you're at it, eh?   
      
   Usenet may be facing Eternal Oblivion and Damnation.   
   So maybe it risks an Eternal September oasis in some   
   "Usenet Reborn" Optional Moderation hierarchy.  I   
   think there are lots of reasons why it needn't be an   
   Eternal September, but if it is so what?  The once AOL   
   bigots and now Google or whatever other bigots and   
   future OM bigots don't have to post or subscribe to OM.   
      
   They have no vote let alone veto on any of this.  There   
   were a couple of posters in the prior thread talking like   
   they had a vote.  They're spending too long behind   
   moderator-protected walls or somethin'.  :-)  This   
   could all be set up on one server and site if need be.,   
   as Whiskers pointed out and that would have been   
   the way it was done 7-10 years ago.  It may yet be   
   done that way, but the discussion is about how it   
   can be done in a more traditional Usenet way that   
   embraces the "passive conduit" in the normal way.   
   Let the individual servers decide if they want to accept   
   the control message if and when it comes.   
      
   If you favor the traditional unmoderated Usenet, you   
   ought to be fine with the OM approach because it doesn't   
   take that away nor force anyone to do anything.  You   
   won't miss anything, not a single post, if you subscribe   
   to only om.tv.no-mod and never look at the lo-mod or   
   hi-mod versions or views.   
      
   You won't even suffer any significant delays or "latency"   
   if you only subscribe to the no-mod group, because if   
   you post to om.tv it'll be released to the unmoderated   
   groups on your crosspost list before human moderation   
   takes place.   
      
   Anyway thanks for your posts Ed, and same with everyone   
   else.  It's entirely understandable that anyone who hasn't   
   had the concept explained might make assumptions and   
   think it's going to impose itself.  It COULD.  There are ways   
   it could get right in the face of a rec.arts.tv poster who has   
   a religious objection to it.   But it just makes no sense after   
   having looked at all of it quite intensively in that earlier   
   thread.  Note the om.tv hierarchy name for example.  Its   
   market is not rec.arts. tv.  It's much, much broader than   
   that, but rec.arts.tv is an interesting pilot project in some   
   respects.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)