Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site amdcad.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!amdcad!phil From: phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai) Newsgroups: net.news.group,net.sources Subject: Re: As long as we are taliking about rmgrouping ... Message-ID: <5666@amdcad.UUCP> Date: Fri, 1-Nov-85 14:32:25 EST Article-I.D.: amdcad.5666 Posted: Fri Nov 1 14:32:25 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Nov-85 05:07:52 EST References: <245@mit-eddie.UUCP> <136@vcvax1.UUCP> <687@ucsfcgl.UUCP> <5647@amdcad.UUCP> Reply-To: phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai) Organization: AMD, Sunnyvale, California Lines: 25 Xref: watmath net.news.group:4179 net.sources:3782 In article <5647@amdcad.UUCP> jimb@amdcad.UUCP (Jim Budler) writes: >The problem with mod.anything has always been that the moderator >'evaluates' the posting. That's not a problem, that's a feature. >What happened to 'the free interchange of ideas'. Free interchange of garbage and flames is more like it. We're trying to increase the ratio of ideas to garbage. I *love* mod.sources. Net.sources is much less useful. >Can't you gurus come >up with a mechanism of control which does not depend on your placing >people of your choice in a position of power to control the flow of >ideas and expressions to the rest of us out here? You could always volunteer to become a moderator. -- The Miami Police Department's Vice Squad has an annual budget of $1.5M. Each episode of the TV show "Miami Vice" costs $1.6M. Phil Ngai +1 408 749-5720 UUCP: {ucbvax,decwrl,ihnp4,allegra}!amdcad!phil ARPA: amdcad!phil@decwrl.dec.com