Re: Request for Discussion

Edward Green wrote:
I've reserved some real estate on Google groups for one or more physics
discussion groups.

I don't use web-based forums, including Google Groups, because I find the user interfaces unbearable. I save so much time by using a real newsreader that the time spent skipping over the noise here is trivial in comparison. Honestly I don't understand how anyone can stand to use web forums.

You can do user-based access control on Usenet with a robomoderator. To avoid spoofing, you can (e.g.) give authorized users a password, different for each user, which has to be included at the top of each post. I don't actually know the Usenet cabal's position on this sort of thing, though. You could ask on news.groups.

-- Ben
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