Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-sem.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!brl-tgr!brl-sem!ron From: ron@brl-sem.ARPA (Ron Natalie) Newsgroups: net.news.group Subject: Re: What happens when posting to the new mod.* groups Message-ID: <508@brl-sem.ARPA> Date: Fri, 8-Nov-85 00:52:24 EST Article-I.D.: brl-sem.508 Posted: Fri Nov 8 00:52:24 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Nov-85 05:40:36 EST References: <338@kepler.UUCP> <634@Glacier.ARPA> Distribution: na Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 17 > This is a perfect example of why it was a dumb idea to convert the fa groups > into mod groups. info-applebus is not a moderated group, it is an ARPAnet > mailing list with a "mail reflector". > > Whenever you try to make one thing masquerade as something it's not, whether > it has to do with computers or with cutlery, people are going to be fooled. > A group with the name "mod.xxx" should have a moderator, and many (most) of > these ARPAnet groups do not have moderators. Unfortunately, only very small communities of the USENET communities knew how to back mail to submit to fa.* groups. Mod.* things were a known quantity. However, this was all discussed before, and people knew before hand that this was likely to happen. -Ron