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From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Zonker T. Chuqui)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: mod.singles is now activated
Message-ID: <1577@nsc.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 13-Oct-84 05:00:29 EDT
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Posted: Sat Oct 13 05:00:29 1984
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> Unless someone can come up with a good reason for it, I have no intention
> of posting to mod.singles.  I think Mark Horton and Chuq have overstepped
> their domain in its creation.

The reasons may not be good, but here they are as I see them, and why I'm
doing this:

(1) many of the groups have reached the point where it is not easy to read
them on a continuing basis. Most of these groups are going to be moderated
as the people moderating them get up to speed. The hope is to try to catch
and reroute inappropriate traffic and reduce multiple duplicate followups
(such as the current McCartney discussion), not limit discussion. This
is designed to be a subset of net.singles, not neccessarily a replacement
for. 

(2) If Lauren's plan for transmitting usenet by satellite or CATV goes
through, all groups will have to be moderated for legal reasons. Part of
this whole thing is to see if moderation, which has worked reasonably well
on Arpanet, will work here. If not, Lauren's stuff simply isn't feasible. 

(3) Usenet has finally grown to the point where the old style laissez faire
anarchy stopped working. Moderators may not be the ultimate solution, but
they've worked in other situations. We'll see how it goes, and if it
doesn't work we can always take a step back because we aren't burning our
bridges behind us. There is no plan to kill off net.singles.

I can understand if you can't support mod.singles. It simply may not work,
but I'm willing to give it a try. Something needs to be done to help keep
usenet from outgrowing itself, and I think this has a good potential for
making that possible. If the majority of the group doesn't want a moderated
topic, they should let me know and I'll cancel mod.singles. I'm attempting
to do this to make things better for all of us (and I certainly have better
things to do, anyway...)

Ok, quickie poll time: mod.singles, yes or no? Mail them (MAIL! MAIL!) to
me at nsc!chuqui or nsc!singles-request and I'll see how it all comes out.

chuq

-- 
From the Department of Bistromatics:                   Chuq Von Rospach
{cbosgd,decwrl,fortune,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo}!nsc!chuqui  nsc!chuqui@decwrl.ARPA

How about 'reason for living?'