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From: fair@dual.UUCP (Erik E. Fair)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: Divisions of net.unix*
Message-ID: <903@dual.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 9-Jan-85 04:32:47 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan  9 04:32:47 1985
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One thing I'd like to point out as a USENET person who also maintains
one of the gateways to the ARPA INTERNET is that if the traffic in
UNIX-WIZARDS gets too crufty, the people on the internet will volunteer a
moderator, and be done with it. One reason they have not done so to
date is that moderation, for them, is a BIG slowdown; response time to
a direct distribution mailing list (which UNIX-WIZARDS is now) is often
on the order of hours, as opposed to days, and a moderated digest would
put a 24 to 48 hour delay in things. Other than that, the internet
community has no qualms about moderated digests, because it has a long
and distinguished history on their side of the gateway. fa.unix-wizards
may yet live again...

	Mr. USENET for ucbvax & dual,

	Erik E. Fair	ucbvax!fair	fair@ucb-arpa.ARPA

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