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From: edhall@randvax.UUCP (Ed Hall)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: "mod.fred + net.fred"
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Date: Mon, 5-Nov-84 14:44:10 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov  5 14:44:10 1984
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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