Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site homxa.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!mhuxl!houxm!homxa!dman From: dman@homxa.UUCP (#D.ANDERSON) Newsgroups: net.news.group Subject: Re: net.general [follow-up to article by nathanm@hp-pcd] Message-ID: <230@homxa.UUCP> Date: Tue, 5-Jun-84 08:16:21 EDT Article-I.D.: homxa.230 Posted: Tue Jun 5 08:16:21 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 6-Jun-84 06:32:01 EDT References: <700003@hp-pcd.UUCP>, <672@ut-ngp.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 20 I don't know about you, werner, but I for one do not have the time to moderate net.general from the 25 machines I administrate news on. No, I'd say the answer is not a benevolent moderator, but an informed user. Netnews does nothing in the way of telling the user what a group is for in the software; the lists of active groups posted by Adam twice a month just don't cut it. A while back I proposed a group description to be printed whenever a new group was entered while reading. I see this as plausible only because most posters are readers first. It is exposure of this kind that will tell the users where articles should go. No matter how much the experienced net users bitch, we must actively inform the novices IN THE SOFTWARE of what is expected. I am not pushing new news software, just a simple mod. If anyone less busy and more concerned than I cares to write it, do it up. But the screams of pain about Joe Newuser posting on the wrong group will only affect the current readers. It will do NOTHING to catch the new user that starts reading/posting next week. Dave Anderson 201-949-5552