Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site bbncca.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!bbncca!sdyer From: sdyer@bbncca.ARPA (Steve Dyer) Newsgroups: net.motss Subject: Re: mod.motss Message-ID: <1002@bbncca.ARPA> Date: Wed, 10-Oct-84 02:11:21 EDT Article-I.D.: bbncca.1002 Posted: Wed Oct 10 02:11:21 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 10-Oct-84 06:08:53 EDT References: <617@ubc-vision.CDN> <618@ubc-vision.CDN> <612@pucc-i> Organization: Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, Ma. Lines: 29 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 {decvax,linus,ima,ihnp4}!bbncca!sdyer sdyer@bbncca.ARPA