Kinda' off topic, but I've seen this gibberish in many spam posts to usenet groups. What purpose does it serve? Thanks, --Michael "She may will virtually cook above Ron when the sticky wrinkles nibble with the sharp river. One more pathetic fresh weavers firmly wander as the abysmal frames dream. Why will you reject the sweet deep tags before Priscilla does? Hardly any empty envelopes are polite and other short printers are cheap, but will Pearl irrigate that? She'd rather cover eventually than scold with Ophelia's fat dose. Are you kind, I mean, arriving without handsome candles? He might judge the difficult sauce and explain it in front of its light. Every proud dryers dye Jay, and they wistfully receive Elisa too. Get your easily climbing ball inside my mirror. You won't help me recommending outside your smart monument. Some forks fear, excuse, and taste. Others angrily sow." [40 more lines snipped] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Stuart" <stuart@tech.org> To: "Vadim Antonov" <avg@exigengroup.com> Cc: <nanog@merit.edu> Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 1:45 PM Subject: Re: Reducing Usenet Bandwidth

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What USENET needs is a distributed system for collection of per-article and per-sender ratings, and for filtration based on those ratings. That would be useful for other applications, as well :)

I would argue that what USENET needs is a way for the cost of publication to be incurred by the publisher; storing the data in your own repository (or repositories) while pointers get flooded through the USENET distribution system would give publishers an incentive to do garbage collection that they do not have today.

It would almost be like gluing a USENET distribution front-end onto a collection of Napster back-ends.

Stephen