Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site randvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!randvax!edhall From: edhall@randvax.UUCP (Ed Hall) Newsgroups: net.news.group Subject: Re: "mod.fred + net.fred" Message-ID: <2090@randvax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 5-Nov-84 14:44:10 EST Article-I.D.: randvax.2090 Posted: Mon Nov 5 14:44:10 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 8-Nov-84 03:49:54 EST References: <370@ucsfcgl.UUCP> <> <1786@nsc.UUCP> <> <1816@nsc.UUCP>, <375@ucsfcgl.UUCP> Organization: Rand Corp., Santa Monica Lines: 25 I think Ken Arnold's idea is an execellent one. Not only does it have almost all of the benifits of moderation, it has few of its problems. The ability to have several lists for the same newsgroup is especially nice; the need to divide groups into subgroups would be reduced. The only issue not directly handled by this selected-articles system is the traffic problem. In fact, it would *seem* that the added lists make the problem worse. Of course, the ``mod.fred + net.fred'' problem adds to traffic as well, so it would seem that moderation, at least initially, has the same problem. The claim made for moderation is that as people stop posting to the net.fred group and post to the mod.fred group, traffic will go down as trashy, off-the-subject, and duplicate postings are}i eliminated. I claim that a selected-articles system will have the same effect, since if it is used by a majority of readers (as the mod.* groups would require) spurious postings would have little audience, and fewer such postings would be made. Moderation couldn't do much better unless net.* groups were actually removed. I suspect that Chuq just had a bad day when he pooh-poohed the idea. Perhaps being a moderator is tiring him out... :-) -Ed Hall decvax!randvax!edhall