Re: Secret moderation society revealed!

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Al Gilman (asgilman@access.digex.net)
Thu, 5 Feb 1998 12:54:26 -0500 (EST)


to follow up on what Warren Young said:

> I don't know about the rest of the world, but just getting to my
> ISP costs about 150ms, and I hit 200ms before I get to Houston.

Do you have shell dialup privileges with your ISP? It costs me
an extra $5 a month but it is all I use. (well, hardly evah...)

Al Gilman

Of course the "logical" thing would be to rewrite the whole package
so it doesn't require you to be logged in on the host. A moderator
could sign on, check out a FAQ to scrub, and file a report clearing
or rejecting it all largely remote.

But that's re-implementing a significant system.