Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 Unisoft-Cosmos; site kepler.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!well!micropro!kepler!mojo From: mojo@kepler.UUCP (Morris Jones) Newsgroups: net.news.group Subject: Re: USENET and Compuserve Message-ID: <271@kepler.UUCP> Date: Sat, 28-Sep-85 18:40:07 EDT Article-I.D.: kepler.271 Posted: Sat Sep 28 18:40:07 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 2-Oct-85 06:38:08 EDT References: <136@cithep.UucP> Reply-To: mojo@kepler.UUCP (mojo) Organization: MicroPro Int'l Corp., San Rafael, CA Lines: 16 In article <136@cithep.UucP> tim@cithep.UucP (Tim Smith ) writes: >The forums on Compuserve are not moderated, yet there does not seem to >be a lot of worry about legal problems. No, but the CompuServe Forums are MONITORED by a sysop. Maybe the monitoring idea is a good one for the network news, but there's a major difference. A sysop on CompuServe stands a very good chance of seeing and deleting an offensive or out-of-place message before many other people do. That wouldn't be the case on USENET. (Hi Tim -- class of '78 Ruddock) -- Mojo ... Morris Jones, MicroPro Product Development {dual,hplabs,glacier,lll-crg}!well!micropro!kepler!mojo