Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84 chuqui version 1.7 9/23/84; site nsc.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!nsc!chuqui From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Zonker T. Chuqui) Newsgroups: net.news.group Subject: Re: mod.all and net.fascism Message-ID: <1624@nsc.UUCP> Date: Fri, 19-Oct-84 06:12:03 EDT Article-I.D.: nsc.1624 Posted: Fri Oct 19 06:12:03 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 20-Oct-84 07:05:19 EDT References: <3886@decwrl.UUCP> <1574@nsc.UUCP> <200@bragvax.UUCP> <371@amdahl.UUCP> <429@amd.UUCP> <221@bragvax.UUCP> Organization: The Warlocks Cave, Castrovalva Lines: 40 > I'd like to make it clear that I have no objection to moderated groups, > or to mod.motss. However, I'm very unhappy that mod.movies, mod.music, > mod.newslists, mod.singles, mod.sources, and mod.unix were created > anonymously with no advance discussion or justification. Who are the > moderators for these groups, who selected them, and what are their > qualifications? Well, the people who made the decision to experiment with moderated groups were the people who have put long hours into making the net work so that people can complain about it (*grin, dammit*). People like Mark and Karen Horton, people like Gene Spafford, Adam Buschaum, Rick Adams, Lauren Weinstein, and some strange person with a fascination for plaid. There was a LOT of discussion involved, but the discussion did not take place primarily on the network, but through mail. A few months ago a call on the net was made for people interested in discussing the network, and they were included in many of the discussions. It was NOT discussed on the net for a number of reasons-- it would have generated a LOT of traffic for a very limited audience; it would have slowed communications significantly; and a lot of useless noise would have been generated that would have needed to be waded through. We felt it was much better to come out with a decent proposal for the network users to try and comment on than try to develop one one the net because the last few attempts to do anything useful about the net on the net have failed miserably because of how large the net has grown. Because of logistic problems the detailed announcements for all of this was delayed-- no fault to anyone, these things happen. If everything had gone as smoothly as your average first installation of a new software product (guaranteed bug free, you know) we might have been able to avoid some of these problems. Of course, reality has a better idea. chuq -- From the Department of Bistromatics: Chuq Von Rospach {cbosgd,decwrl,fortune,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo}!nsc!chuqui nsc!chuqui@decwrl.ARPA (Editors note: Bistromatics is NOT a typo. Bistromathics is the study of math on an italian waiters checkpad. Bistromatics is the study of Italian cooking on females of the human species. Please quit sending me mail) I'd know those eyes from a million years away....