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From: sdyer@bbncca.ARPA (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: net.motss
Subject: Re: mod.motss
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Date: Wed, 10-Oct-84 02:11:21 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 10 02:11:21 1984
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Yup, Mark Horton created 'mod.motss' this past week.  I am quite
ambivalent about having to resort to mod.motss, and even more
ambivalent about having both newsgroups coexist.  Still, I have
received enough private mail on the topic, along with the public
messages, to convince myself that it is worth a try.  At the very
least it will remove the argument that I've heard from a number of
people over the last few months which goes roughly like: "Well, I
used to read net.motss, but with all this crap in there, well, I just
don't bother anymore."  Or, "isn't it a shame the way net.motss has
been overrun by the Bible baiters."  Well, listen people, mod.motss
AIN'T going to be like that, so your excuse is gone.  Use it or lose it.

What are the respective futures of net.motss and mod.motss?  Right now,
of course, they coexist, and that will probably stay that way for
the immediate future.  My own personal view is that mod.motss should
replace net.motss as soon as it is clear that mod.motss is off-the-ground
and well-established.  But this is something which should be discussed
by the group at large.  If there are problems with using a moderated
newsgroup format (inconvience of posting, limited distribution of mod.all)
or if mod.motss does not become sufficiently popular (by more than
"two of us"--we'll see, Ken!) then we will try to deal with the situation
in net.motss.

My next message will be an introduction to 'mod.motss' with all sorts
of useful information about how to post articles to it.
-- 
/Steve Dyer
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