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From: wmartin@brl-tgr.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.motss,net.news.group
Subject: Re: A mod.est proposal: "mod.motss"
Message-ID: <5079@brl-tgr.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 5-Oct-84 11:45:48 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct  5 11:45:48 1984
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This seems an excellent idea, but I propose one slight modification:
"net.motss" continue to exist as is, but that any worthwhile item
deemed by the moderator to be of value be extracted and included
in "mod.motss". Thus, net.motss could include anything, unlimited
and uncensored, while mod.motss would contain any direct submissions
mailed to and cleared by the moderator, plus any items from net.motss
that are worth including. Mod.motss thus has the best of both worlds.

(Now, all you need is a moderator, and provide him tools to cleanly
and simply do such transference across group boundaries -- he needs
a "transfer" command to use as he reads net.motss, which will simply
take the just-read existing posting, replace the "Newsgroups:" contents
with "mod.motss", and copy it to his host's "mod.motss" directory.)