Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site utah-gr.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!utah-cs!utah-gr!thomas From: thomas@utah-gr.UUCP (Spencer W. Thomas) Newsgroups: net.news.stargate Subject: Re: Stargate new groups? Message-ID: <1308@utah-gr.UUCP> Date: Fri, 18-Jan-85 14:39:17 EST Article-I.D.: utah-gr.1308 Posted: Fri Jan 18 14:39:17 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 21-Jan-85 00:49:49 EST References: <354@wnuxb.UUCP> Reply-To: thomas@utah-gr.UUCP (Spencer W. Thomas) Organization: Univ of Utah CS Dept Lines: 49 Summary: In article <354@wnuxb.UUCP> netnews@wnuxb.UUCP (Ron Heiby) writes: >Now then, what may happen with a fully moderated stargate distribution >(which I favor)? Here's one scenario: > 1) Someone sends an article to the moderator for sat.news.groups > suggesting the need for a newsgroup to discuss FOOBAR. > 2) Moderator posts the message to sat.news.groups. The groundrules > call for "votes" to be sent either to him/her or to the > original suggester (doesn't matter much). > 3) People send "votes" saying that since there has never been > much discussion of FOOBAR, that no new group is needed. > 4) People start trying to post FOOBAR messages to inappropriate > groups, where they are rejected by the moderators. > 5) Discussions concerning FOOBAR never start. The way it works on the Arpanet, which has NO formal mechanism for setting up a new mailing list (sort of equivalent to a newsgroup, but it comes to your personal mailbox), is that someone says "Gee, I think I'll start a mailing list about", and posts a message on either a related list, or to the arpanet equivalent of net.general, saying "I'm starting a mailing list about , all those interested, send me your net address." So a lot of people send him their net address, and then people start mailing messages (or don't) to the new list. If traffic grows too big, then someone (often not the original person who started the list) moderates it. If there's no traffic, then nothing happens. So, an equivalent scenario for stargate newsgroups might be 1) Someone decides he wants a group about . He finds out from the "stargate administrator" how to become a moderator. 2) He sends out a message to sat.news.group saying that the new group exists, and that he is moderating it. 3) If no traffic occurs, he loses interest, and the group goes away. 4) If too much traffic occurs, and he runs out of time, he either a) finds someone else to moderate the group b) gets further and further behind, incurring the wrath of posters, until someone else volunteers to moderate the group c) posts a rmgroup message. (Please note: "he" above means "he, she, or it", as the case may be.) Another scenario is to wait until discussion develops in a net.* group, then find a moderator and start broadcasting it over sat.*. -- =Spencer ({ihnp4,decvax}!utah-cs!thomas, thomas@utah-cs.ARPA) <<< Silly quote of the week >>>