From: Bill Davidsen (davidsen@prodigy.com)
Date: Tue Aug 06 2002 - 17:38:16 CDT
On Mon, 5 Aug 2002, Jay Denebeim wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Aug 2002, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 5 Aug 2002, David Iain Greig wrote:
> > Or are you missing the point that there doesn't seem to be any such
> > software and I am suggesting that there should be one. In place. Working.
>
> Uh, no. You're missing the point that there doesn't seems to be any one
> program people are using now. There are, as I've been saying way too many
> times, many different implementations, and one piece of software won't cut
> it for all (or even a large subset) of moderated groups.
People keep saying this and when I ask for an example of moderator software
which handles extended character sets they stop saying it. Not only are there
not "many different" solutions, AFAIK there are none if you want ECS. If
you disagree please name the groups and software used.z
There should be a program to bootstrap ECS moderation, people not moderating
ECS groups can keed using ed on CP/M for all I care, but there should be at
least one thing which does work with ECS, to prevent people from claiming
that there is no tool.
It doesn't matter how many tools and groups there are, they are not part of
the ECS solution. And no matter how much you believe that if all you
personally need is ASCII, usenet whould ignore those people who want to use
something else, someone will come up with a solution, and it will be better
if it's usefor than someone without a clue.
For the last time, I am not proposing to take away whatever you have now,
I want to provide a tool for people who are not usa-centric bigots.
-- -bill davidsen (davidsen@darkstar.prodigy.com) "The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer" -me