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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
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Posted: Fri Oct 19 06:12:03 1984
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> 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
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(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....