Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1+some 2/3/84; site dual.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxj!houxm!ihnp4!dual!fair 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 Article-I.D.: dual.903 Posted: Wed Jan 9 04:32:47 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 11-Jan-85 07:19:27 EST References: <2157@nsc.UUCP> <2116@uw-june> Organization: Dual Systems, Berkeley, CA Lines: 19 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 dual!fair@BERKELEY.ARPA {ihnp4,ucbvax,cbosgd,hplabs,decwrl,unisoft,fortune,sun,nsc}!dual!fair Dual Systems Corporation, Berkeley, California