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From: dman@homxa.UUCP (#D.ANDERSON)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: net.general [follow-up to article by nathanm@hp-pcd]
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Date: Tue, 5-Jun-84 08:16:21 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun  5 08:16:21 1984
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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